Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B899FB1EF for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 16:34:59 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 78208-08 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 16:34:56 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7EC819FA66A for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2007 16:34:57 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Apr 2007 19:34:56 -0000 Received: from xdsl-87-78-213-28.netcologne.de (EHLO colt.pezone.net) [87.78.213.28] by mail.gmx.net (mp034) with SMTP; 08 Apr 2007 21:34:56 +0200 X-Authenticated: #495269 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18ZNQsrP6UZ6dC5WCs/eelCUSf2mCPA8XM72nHUdK Br59dNv6AYO29c From: Peter Eisentraut To: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Fix misleading references to columns in GRANT/REVOKE summaries Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 21:34:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Tom Lane , Russell Smith , David Fetter , PostgreSQL Patches References: <20070406234603.GI3784@fetter.org> <4616F98B.9020506@pws.com.au> <847.1175912697@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <847.1175912697@sss.pgh.pa.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704082134.54123.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200704/6 X-Sequence-Number: 4202 Tom Lane wrote: > True, there doesn't seem to be any point in providing a full syntax > summary rather than just saying "the SQL spec says you can grant > privileges on columns but we don't support that yet". I think it's pretty useful if people see a command of this form from some other implementation and don't know what it means. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/