On Nov 29, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com> writes:
>> I just noticed this. In the section of the page, near the end, that
>> describes the access privileges display generated by psql's \z (which
>> come from pg_class.relacl) there is the following:
>
>> /yyyy -- user who granted this privilege
>
>> That's not the case. What get's listed there is the current owner of
>> the table (at least in 8.2).
>
> Your test case does not show that. I think you missed this paragraph:
>
> : If a superuser chooses to issue a GRANT or REVOKE command, the
> command
> : is performed as though it were issued by the owner of the affected
> : object. In particular, privileges granted via such a command will
> appear
> : to have been granted by the object owner. (For role membership, the
> : membership appears to have been granted by the containing role
> itself.)
>
> regards, tom lane
Ah, thanks, I did miss that one.
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