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To: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
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Subject: Re: Fix misleading references to columns in GRANT/REVOKE summaries 
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Comments: In-reply-to David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
	message dated "Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:46:03 -0700"
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:06:00 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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David Fetter <david@fetter.org> 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