| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pre-proposal: permissions made easier |
| Date: | 2009-06-28 21:38:20 |
| Message-ID: | 20090628213820.GU21081@fetter.org |
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On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 05:27:19PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> David Fetter wrote:
>>
>>> * Users who come from MySQL every once in a while, annoyed that
>>> we don't support "GRANT ... *" syntax.
>>>
>>
>> I'm missing what's wrong with a wild-card GRANT syntax for this
>> case.
>
> Without a major change in the way we do permissions, it will not
> work prospectively. We have no way ATM to store permissions for an
> object that does not currently exist.
There have been previous discussions of prospective permissions
changes. Are we restarting them here?
Cheers,
David.
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