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Re: REFERENCES privilege should not be symmetric (was Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Permissions Article)

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Paul Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com>, PGSQL Mailing List <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-03-31T13:22:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general 
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> In short, it seems like this statement in the docs is correctly describing
> our code's behavior, but said behavior is wrong and should be changed.
> I'd propose fixing it like that in HEAD; I'm not sure if the back branches
> should also be changed.

Sounds reasonable, but I don't see much advantage to changing it in
the back-branches.

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Robert Haas
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Commits

  1. For foreign keys, check REFERENCES privilege only on the referenced table.