Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Support comments on FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER and SERVER objects.

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Shigeru HANADA <hanada@metrosystems.co.jp>, Shigeru Hanada <shigeru.hanada@gmail.com>, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2011-04-05T21:04:21Z

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Support comments on FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER and SERVER objects.
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On tis, 2011-04-05 at 14:47 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Supporting user mappings in COMMENT, EXTENSION, etc is not so critical
> that we should push a possibly misdesigned notion of ownership into
> the system for it.  Better to take our time and think about that.
> 
> (BTW, it might be useful to reconsider casts while we are thinking about
> this.  Those don't have a proper notion of ownership either.  I'm a bit
> inclined to think that we should just bite the bullet and add owner
> columns to both these catalogs.  But, again, let's not be hasty.)

As I said elsewhere, I think of user mappings as similar to role grants.
An owner there would be similar to a grantor, so it would make sense.