Re: Foreign table permissions and cloning

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Shigeru Hanada <hanada@metrosystems.co.jp> writes:
>> Attached patch implements along specifications below.  It also includes
>> documents and regression tests.  Some of regression tests might be
>> redundant and removable.
>
>> 1) "GRANT privilege [(column_list)] ON [TABLE] TO role" also work for
>> foreign tables as well as regular tables, if specified privilege was
>> SELECT.  This might seem little inconsistent but I feel natural to use
>> this syntax for SELECT-able objects.  Anyway, such usage can be disabled
>> with trivial fix.
>
> It seems really seriously inconsistent to do that at the same time that
> you make other forms of GRANT treat foreign tables as a separate class
> of object.  I think if they're going to be a separate class of object,
> they should be separate, full stop.  Making them just mostly separate
> will confuse people no end.

I agree.

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