Re: missing data in information_schema grant_* tables?

On fre, 2010-01-15 at 12:00 +0100, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> INSERT to PUBLIC is shown on the last line of the access privileges
> column. However, when looking at the information_schema:
>
> psql> SELECT grantor, grantee, privilege_type
> FROM information_schema.role_table_grants
> WHERE table_name = 'foo';
> grantor | grantee | privilege_type
> ---------+---------+----------------
> fabien | fabien | SELECT
> fabien | fabien | INSERT
> fabien | fabien | UPDATE
> fabien | fabien | DELETE
> fabien | fabien | TRUNCATE
> fabien | fabien | REFERENCES
> fabien | fabien | TRIGGER
> fabien | calvin | SELECT
> (8 rows)
>
> My point is that the grant to "PUBLIC" does not show in the
> information
> schema. However, it appears in the table_privileges view:
>
> psql> SELECT grantor, grantee, privilege_type FROM
> information_schema.table_privileges WHERE table_name='foo';
> grantor | grantee | privilege_type
> ---------+---------+----------------
> ... same as previous query ...
> fabien | PUBLIC | INSERT
>
> (1) Would you agree that it is a "bug"? That is, if the grantee is
> PUBLIC,
> it is an enabled role for the current user, so it should appear in
> the
> role_table_grants view...

The whole point of role_table_grants is that it shows everything that
table_privileges shows except privileges granted to public. So the
behavior you observe is correct.