Re: Bug / shortcoming in has_*_privilege

Nasby, Jim <jnasby@enovafinancial.com>

From: "Nasby, Jim" <JNasby@enovafinancial.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PGSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-02T15:11:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Jun 11, 2010, at 5:18 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.

Cool, I'll have CMD come up with a patch.
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