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Re: [PATCHES] Fix misleading references to columns in GRANT/REVOKE summaries



Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> That doesn't mean this one isn't useful.  Please revert this.
> 
> > Well, Tom and I thought it caused confusion, as did the person reporting
> > the confusion.  You saying to revert it isn't enough.
> 
> A possible compromise is to describe or show the syntax in some informal
> form, so that it didn't look like one of the <synopsis> sections we use
> for supported syntax.  I'm not sure what that would look like exactly,
> but I do see merit in both sides of this discussion...

I am all for us describing how we don't match the SQL spec, but just
showing the syntax doesn't seem to help people understand how we don't
match the spec, does it?  Are there more details to column-level GRANT
except saying we don't support it?

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