Re: replace GrantObjectType with ObjectType

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
> Michael Paquier wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Peter Eisentraut
>> <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> > It seems to me that having ACL_OBJECT_* symbols alongside OBJECT_*
>> > symbols is not useful and leads to duplication. Digging around in the
>> > past suggests that we used to have a lot of these command-specific
>> > symbols but got rid of them over time, except that the ACL stuff was
>> > never touched. The attached patch accomplishes that.
>
> +1 for this.
>
>> -bool
>> -EventTriggerSupportsGrantObjectType(GrantObjectType objtype)
>> -{
>> - switch (objtype)
>> - {
>> - case ACL_OBJECT_DATABASE:
>> - case ACL_OBJECT_TABLESPACE:
>> - /* no support for global objects */
>> - return false;
>> By removing that, if any GRANT/REVOKE support is added for another
>> object type, then EventTriggerSupportsObjectType would return true by
>> default instead of getting a compilation failure.
>
> Yeah, we've found it useful to remove default: clauses in some switch
> blocks so that we get compile warnings when we forget to add a new type
> (c.f. commit e84c0195980f). Let's not add any more of those.

Here is an idea: let's keep EventTriggerSupportsGrantObjectType which
instead of ACL_OBJECT_* uses OBJECT_*, but complains with an error if
the object is not supported with GRANT. Not need for a default in this
case.
--
Michael