Re: Granting SET and ALTER SYSTE privileges for GUCs

From: Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Granting SET and ALTER SYSTE privileges for GUCs
Date: 2021-11-24 02:14:54
Message-ID: 9DB8DABC-0E1E-4AB0-BB11-9BC48E4C71BE@enterprisedb.com
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> On Nov 23, 2021, at 8:07 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> It's my impression that information_schema is a child of the SQL
> standard, and that inventions specific to PG go in pg_catalog.
>
> Also, I think the user-facing name for GUCs is "settings".

Thanks. These issues should be fixed in v4.

Along the way, I also added has_setting_privilege() functions overlooked in v3 and before.

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v4-0001-Allow-GRANT-of-SET-and-ALTER-SYSTEM-for-variables.patch application/octet-stream 114.7 KB

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