Re: Re: Privileges for INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA (was Re: [DOCS] Small clarification in "34.41. schemata")

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 03:49:36PM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 1/9/13 8:56 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > However, it seems to me that this behavior is actually wrong for our
> > purposes, as it represents a too-literal reading of the spec. The SQL
> > standard has no concept of privileges on schemas, only ownership.
> > We do have privileges on schemas, so it seems to me that the consistent
> > thing would be for this view to show any schema that you either own or
> > have some privilege on. That is the test should be more like
> >
> > pg_has_role(n.nspowner, 'USAGE')
> > OR has_schema_privilege(n.oid, 'CREATE, USAGE')
> >
> > As things stand, a non-superuser won't see "public", "pg_catalog",
> > nor even "information_schema" itself in this view, which seems a
> > tad silly.
>
> I agree it would make sense to change this.

Is this the patch you want applied? The docs are fine?

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