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From: Russell Smith <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Docs <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Patches <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [DOCS] Fix misleading references to columns in GRANT/REVOKE summaries
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:53:15 +1000
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
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Tom Lane wrote:
> 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...
>   
Maybe removing the entire example would be more helpful.  I don't find 
it clear to have a command outline in a compatibility block.
> 			regards, tom lane
>
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