Re: pre-proposal: permissions made easier - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

David Fetter wrote:
>   
>>  * Users who come from MySQL every once in a while, annoyed that we
>>  don't support "GRANT ... *" syntax.
>>     
>
> I'm missing what's wrong with a wild-card GRANT syntax for this case.
>
>   

Without a major change in the way we do permissions, it will not work 
prospectively. We have no way ATM to store permissions for an object 
that does not currently exist.

cheers

andrew