Re: information schema/aclexplode doesn't know about default privileges

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-01-09T18:23:59Z
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On mån, 2012-01-02 at 06:43 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I figured the best and most flexible way to address this is to export
> acldefault() as an SQL function and replace
> 
>     aclexplode(proacl)
> 
> with
> 
>     aclexplode(coalesce(proacl, acldefault('f', proowner)))
> 
> where 'f' here is something that is mapped to ACL_OBJECT_FUNCTION
> internally.  AFAICT, there is no existing way to map an SQL-accessible
> quantity to the ACL_OBJECT_* symbols, so I'll just have to make
> something up.

Nobody had a better idea, so here is the final patch.  I adjusted the
regression tests a bit to avoid bloat from the now-visible owner
privileges.