Re: Improve tab completion for ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGE and ALTER TABLE - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Mon, 27 Nov 2023 at 21:58, vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 at 18:37, Shubham Khanna
> <khannashubham1197@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > n Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 6:33 PM vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Improved tab completion for "ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGE" and "ALTER TABLE":
> > > 1) GRANT, REVOKE and FOR USER keyword was not displayed in tab
> > > completion of alter default privileges like the below statement:
> > > ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES GRANT INSERT ON tables TO PUBLIC;
> > > ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES REVOKE INSERT ON tables FROM PUBLIC;
> > > ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES FOR USER vignesh revoke INSERT ON tables FROM dba1;
> > >
> > > 2) USER was not displayed for "ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES IN SCHEMA
> > > public FOR " like in below statement:
> > > ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES IN SCHEMA public FOR USER dba1 GRANT INSERT
> > > ON TABLES TO PUBLIC;
> > >
> > > 3) "FOR GRANT OPTION" was not display for "ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES
> > > REVOKE " like in below statement:
> > > alter default privileges revoke grant option for select ON tables FROM dba1;
> > >
> > > 4) "DATA TYPE" was missing in "ALTER TABLE table-name ALTER COLUMN
> > > column-name SET" like in:
> > > ALTER TABLE t1 ALTER COLUMN c1 SET DATA TYPE text;
> > >
> > > Attached patch has the changes for the same.
> >
> > +    COMPLETE_WITH("ROLE", "USER");
> > +  /* ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES REVOKE */
> > +  else if (Matches("ALTER", "DEFAULT", "PRIVILEGES", "REVOKE"))
> > +    COMPLETE_WITH("SELECT", "INSERT", "UPDATE", "DELETE", "TRUNCATE",
> > +            "REFERENCES", "TRIGGER", "CREATE", "EXECUTE", "USAGE",
> > +            "MAINTAIN", "ALL", "GRANT OPTION FOR");
> >
> > I could not find "alter default privileges revoke maintain", should
> > this be removed?
>
> This was reverted as part of:
> 151c22deee66a3390ca9a1c3675e29de54ae73fc.
> Revert MAINTAIN privilege and pg_maintain predefined role.
>
> This reverts the following commits: 4dbdb82513, c2122aae63,
> 5b1a879943, 9e1e9d6560, ff9618e82a, 60684dd834, 4441fc704d,
> and b5d6382496.  A role with the MAINTAIN privilege may be able to
> use search_path tricks to escalate privileges to the table owner.
> Unfortunately, it is too late in the v16 development cycle to apply
> the proposed fix, i.e., restricting search_path when running
> maintenance commands.
>
> The attached v2 version has the changes for the same.

The patch was not applying because of a recent commit in tab
completion, PSA new patch set.

Regards,
Vignesh