| From: | Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> | 
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| To: | Pavel Luzanov <p(dot)luzanov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> | 
| Cc: | PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: doc - add missing documentation for "acldefault" | 
| Date: | 2018-08-03 09:17:05 | 
| Message-ID: | alpine.DEB.2.21.1808031106420.8068@lancre | 
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Hello,
>> However, the point of having hidden and/or undocumented functions fails me: 
>> they are hard/impossible to find if you do not know they exist from
>> the start, and if you ever find one you do not know what they do without 
>> reading the source code in detail, eg to know what to give arguments to get 
>> an answer.
> At first, we must decide in which cases users will use them. And I don't 
> see such cases. I must to know how to grant privileges, how to revoke 
> them and how to check existing priveleges. All theese tasks documented 
> in GRANT, REVOKE commands and system catalog descriptions.
These are end-user needs.
There are also other needs, such as devs. I see no reason to make the 
developer work harder by not providing documentation about available 
functions. Tom mention the "acldefault" function that I did not know 
existed, and I have read the doc!
So I'm still favorable to documenting all functions:-)
Maybe there could be a special section about special/internal functions, 
separate from functions which are more of interest to the end-user? But 
for me this is already the purpose of the "System information" sections in 
the documentation. Maybe there could be another sub-section about aclitem 
related functions in the "System information" section for these.
> Your's patch from another thread closes the last hole - describing default 
> privileges in various psql commands.
Yep.
-- 
Fabien.
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