Discrpency in the GRANT docs - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Erik Jones
Subject Discrpency in the GRANT docs
Date
Msg-id 628E5B22-66A7-456E-B495-3FB8C66EEA44@myemma.com
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Responses Re: Discrpency in the GRANT docs  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
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).  So, then the question is are the docs
correct or is the behavior correct ?  Here's a test run:

usda=# select current_user;
current_user
--------------
admin
(1 row)

usda=# create table test (id integer);
CREATE TABLE
usda=# create role test_user1;
CREATE ROLE
usda=# create role test_user2;
CREATE ROLE
usda=# \z test
    Access privileges for database "usda"
Schema | Name | Type  | Access privileges
--------+------+-------+-------------------
public | test | table |
(1 row)

usda=# grant all on test to test_user1;
GRANT
usda=# \z test
                 Access privileges for database "usda"
Schema | Name | Type  |              Access privileges
--------+------+-------+----------------------------------------------
public | test | table | {admin=arwdxt/admin,test_user1=arwdxt/admin}
(1 row)

usda=# alter table test owner to test_user2;
ALTER TABLE
usda=# \z test
                         Access privileges for database "usda"
Schema | Name | Type  |                      Access privileges
--------+------+-------
+-------------------------------------------------------------
public | test | table | {test_user2=arwdxt/
test_user2,test_user1=arwdxt/test_user2}
(1 row)

usda=# alter table test owner to admin;
ALTER TABLE
usda=# \z test
                 Access privileges for database "usda"
Schema | Name | Type  |              Access privileges
--------+------+-------+----------------------------------------------
public | test | table | {admin=arwdxt/admin,test_user1=arwdxt/admin}
(1 row)


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