Re: grant and SQL92

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Vince Vielhaber writes:
>
> > I can grant a series of privileges (comma separated) on a series of
> > objects (comma separated) to either a user, group or public NOT a
> > comma separated list of users or groups. Yet at the bottom of the
> > man page for grant
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?sql-grant.html
> >
> > it says it's allowed in SQL92. How is it this isn't allowed in
> > postgresql, is it a real pain to implement or was it just never
> > needed?
>
> There is insufficient internal representation of the GRANT parse tree,
> which makes this cumbersome to implement. Not terribly hard to fix, but
> someone needs to do it. (Where were those PostgreSQL hacker newbies?)

I figure it'll be easier to fix than to try and redo the scripts. Have
a direction you can point me in?

Vince.
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