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Re: add \dpS to psql

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

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From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Cc: Maxim Orlov <orlovmg@gmail.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Pavel Luzanov <p.luzanov@postgrespro.ru>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2023-01-09T17:45:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 11:18:59AM +0000, Dean Rasheed wrote:
> It might be true that temp tables aren't usually interesting from a
> permissions point of view, but it's not hard to imagine situations
> where interesting things do happen. It's also probably the case that
> most users won't have many temp tables, so I don't think including
> them by default will be particularly intrusive.
> 
> Also, from a user perspective, I think it would be something of a POLA
> violation for \dp[S] and \dt[S] to include different sets of tables,
> though I appreciate that we do that now. There's nothing in the docs
> to indicate that that's the case.

Agreed.

> Anyway, I've pushed the v2 patch as-is. If anyone feels strongly
> enough that we should change its behaviour for temp tables, then we
> can still discuss that.

Thanks!

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Nathan Bossart
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  1. Fix psql \?'s entries for \dp and \z.

  2. psql: Add support for \dpS and \zS.

  3. Add grantable MAINTAIN privilege and pg_maintain role.