Re: TRUNCATE privilege vs information_schema - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dave Page
Subject Re: TRUNCATE privilege vs information_schema
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Msg-id 937d27e10809080035y2a75ea65u9be28bf68c9db62a@mail.gmail.com
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In response to TRUNCATE privilege vs information_schema  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Whilst going through the pending patch to add TRUNCATE as a separate
> permission, I noticed that it neglected to add TRUNCATE to the various
> columns in information_schema that display privileges.  I wonder whether
> we should do so, or whether we should restrict information_schema to
> only show SQL-spec-compatible privileges.

If we add that, how many other places are we likely to creep from the
spec in the future? I think we should keep it as spec-compliant as
possible.

-- 
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com


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