Re: GRANT ON ALL IN schema

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Guillaume Smet <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>, Petr Jelinek <pjmodos(at)pjmodos(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: GRANT ON ALL IN schema
Date: 2009-06-18 07:21:36
Message-ID: 200906181021.36835.peter_e@gmx.net
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On Wednesday 17 June 2009 20:27:20 Robert Haas wrote:
> What to do about wildcards is a stickier wicket, and maybe we need to
> decide that first, but I really don't think we should be discouraging
> anyone from investigating this stuff and trying to come up with good
> solutions. There will always be some people for whom a custom
> PL/pgsql function that directly accesses the catalog tables is the
> only workable answer, but we can make PostgreSQL a whole lot easier to
> use by reducing the need to do that for simple cases.

I'm all for investigating it. I just have my doubts that "grant on all tables
in schema X" is a sufficiently general use case, even if you only concentrate
on the simple cases.

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