Re: Remove old RULE privilege completely

On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 02:45:37AM +0900, Fujii Masao wrote:
> On 2024/09/10 1:02, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2024 at 10:37 AM Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com> wrote:
>> > In v8.2, the RULE privilege for tables was removed, but for backward compatibility,
>> > GRANT/REVOKE RULE, has_table_privilege(..., 'RULE') etc are still accepted,
>> > though they don't perform any actions.
>> > 
>> > Do we still need to maintain this backward compatibility?
>> > Could we consider removing the RULE privilege entirely?
>> 
>> 8.2 is a long time ago. If it's really been dead since then, I think
>> we should remove it.

+1.  It seems more likely to cause confusion at this point.

> Ok, so, patch attached.
> 
> There was a test to check if has_table_privilege() accepted the keyword RULE.
> The patch removed it since it's now unnecessary and would only waste cycles
> testing that has_table_privilege() no longer accepts the keyword.

LGTM

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nathan