ACL's

Hi,

while writing the chapter about Rules and permissions I
remember that there was a problem with non privileged users.
As soon as someone without superuser privs does a GRANT or
REVOKE on his relations, he must GRANT explicitly to himself
too or will get a "permission denied". I think since the
table owner allway has the right to change ACL's, this
doesn't make sense. I'll dig it up and send in a patch soon.

While doing this, should I exclude RULE permission from GRANT
ALL? I think it's dangerous to have it included, because the
usual way to give full access is a GRANT ALL and someone
might forget that this includes the right to disable rule
actions for a moment. The output of pg_rules gives anyone the
knowledge to reinstall the correct rules after. An explicitly
required GRANT RULE is better IMHO. And the RULE right isn't
standard, is it?

Jan

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