Re: [DOCS] Fix misleading references to columns in GRANT/REVOKE summaries - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Russell Smith
Subject Re: [DOCS] Fix misleading references to columns in GRANT/REVOKE summaries
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Msg-id 4616F98B.9020506@pws.com.au
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In response to Re: [DOCS] Fix misleading references to columns in GRANT/REVOKE summaries  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [DOCS] Fix misleading references to columns in GRANT/REVOKE summaries  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
>
>> Per a question Alexey Parshin asked in the IRC channel, I'm attaching
>> a patch to the GRANT and REVOKE syntax summaries which replaces the
>> misleading word "column" with "parameter."  "Column" is misleading
>> because it could be read to imply a column-level GRANT/REVOKE, which
>> we don't have yet.
>>
>
> Apparently it's so misleading that you didn't understand it either.
> The entire *point* of that paragraph is that we don't have the
> feature.  This proposed change is surely not an improvement...
>
Maybe removing the entire example would be more helpful.  I don't find
it clear to have a command outline in a compatibility block.
>             regards, tom lane
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