Re: Sorting out acl fixes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Sorting out acl fixes
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Msg-id 40FF40DD.4030502@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: Sorting out acl fixes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> When did that get to be part of the requirements?  I don't even know
> who you expect to do this (backend? pg_dump? user?) or at what level
> you think the fixing should happen (GRANT/REVOKE?  UPDATE pg_class
> SET relacl = fixme(relacl)?  direct hacking of the ACL array?).  To
> say nothing of the semantic problems of deciding what an invalid
> ACL is really supposed to mean.

I was referring to fixing my own database that is full of these acls 
that dump incorrectly - perhaps you don't give me enough credit.  I'm 
thinking that if I can find a watertight way of fixing it at pg_dump 
time I should, for pre 7.5 databases.  Should I?

Chris



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