Re: Allow CURRENT_ROLE in GRANTED BY

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Vik Fearing <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Allow CURRENT_ROLE in GRANTED BY
Date: 2020-12-10 18:39:49
Message-ID: 2073b6a9-7f79-5a00-5f26-cd19589a52c7@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2020-06-24 20:21, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2020-06-24 10:12, Vik Fearing wrote:
>> On 6/24/20 8:35 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> I was checking some loose ends in SQL conformance, when I noticed: We
>>> support GRANT role ... GRANTED BY CURRENT_USER, but we don't support
>>> CURRENT_ROLE in that place, even though in PostgreSQL they are
>>> equivalent.  Here is a trivial patch to add that.
>>
>>
>> The only thing that isn't dead-obvious about this patch is the commit
>> message says "[PATCH 1/2]". What is in the other part?
>
> Hehe. The second patch is some in-progress work to add the GRANTED BY
> clause to the regular GRANT command. More on that perhaps at a later date.

Here is the highly anticipated and quite underwhelming second part of
this patch set.

--
Peter Eisentraut
2ndQuadrant, an EDB company
https://www.2ndquadrant.com/

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