Re: has_column_privilege behavior (was Re: Assert failed in snprintf.c)

On 10/01/2018 02:41 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> But it's not quite clear to me what we want the behavior for bad column
>> name to be.  A case could be made for either of:
>> 
>> * If either the table OID is bad, or the OID is OK but there's no such
>> column, return null.
>> 
>> * Return null for bad OID, but if it's OK, continue to throw error
>> for bad column name.
>> 
>> The second case seems weirdly inconsistent, but it might actually
>> be the most useful definition.  Not detecting a misspelled column
>> name is likely to draw complaints.

Seems you could make the same argument for not detecting a misspelled
table name for this and has_table_privilege...


> My inclination would be to make the function return NULL in any case
> where we can't find what the user is asking for (and to not throw an
> error in general).

+1

Joe

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