Re: [PATCH] allow has_table_privilege(..., 'usage') on sequences

From: "Jaime Casanova" <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Abhijit Menon-Sen" <ams(at)oryx(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow has_table_privilege(..., 'usage') on sequences
Date: 2008-09-22 17:54:34
Message-ID: 3073cc9b0809221054y5c93736bk78f12b07c8f6c961@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)oryx(dot)com> writes:
>> (I can't help but think that the USAGE privilege is a bit unfortunate.
>> If granting SELECT rights allowed currval(), INSERT allowed nextval(),
>> and UPDATE allowed nextval() and setval(), then has_table_privilege()
>> would have been sufficient and there would be no need to invent a new
>> set of functions just to check USAGE.
>
> That train left the station already, and anyway you are failing to
> consider "SELECT * FROM sequence", which definitely needs to have
> different privileges from nextval()/currval().
>

can we tell there is consensus in create a new has_sequence_privilege()?
Abhijit will you make it? if not i can make a try...

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Jaime Casanova
Soporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL
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Guayaquil - Ecuador
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