I wrote:
> [ pokes at it some more... ] Yeah, I just didn't have my head screwed
> on straight. We need the global entries to be dumped as deltas from
> the proper object-type-specific ACL, while the non-global ones should be
> dumped as grants only, which can be modeled as a delta from an empty
> ACL. So the patch should be good as given (though maybe the comment
> needs more work to clarify this). Sorry for the noise.
This was blocking some other work I'm doing on pg_dump, so I rewrote
the comment some more and pushed it.
regards, tom lane