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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Docs <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Patches <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Fix misleading references to columns in GRANT/REVOKE summaries
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:06:00 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

David Fetter <[email protected]> writes:
> Per a question Alexey Parshin asked in the IRC channel, I'm attaching
> a patch to the GRANT and REVOKE syntax summaries which replaces the
> misleading word "column" with "parameter."  "Column" is misleading
> because it could be read to imply a column-level GRANT/REVOKE, which
> we don't have yet.

Apparently it's so misleading that you didn't understand it either.
The entire *point* of that paragraph is that we don't have the
feature.  This proposed change is surely not an improvement...

			regards, tom lane

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