Re: Bug / shortcoming in has_*_privilege

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Jim Nasby <jim@nasby.net> wrote:
>> So there's no way to see if a particular privilege has been granted to public. ISTM 'public' should be accepted, since you can't use it as a role name anyway...

> It's a bit sticky - you could make that work for
> has_table_privilege(name, oid, text) or has_table_privilege(name,
> text, text), but what would you do about the versions whose first
> argument is an oid?

Nothing.  The only reason to use those forms is in a join against
pg_authid, and the "public" group doesn't have an entry there.

			regards, tom lane