Received: from localhost (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D53699FBE93 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 23:25:02 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 78464-02 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 23:24:53 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 368839FBE83 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 23:24:59 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l372OvZi000848; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 22:24:57 -0400 (EDT) To: Russell Smith cc: David Fetter , PostgreSQL Docs , PostgreSQL Patches Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Fix misleading references to columns in GRANT/REVOKE summaries In-reply-to: <4616F98B.9020506@pws.com.au> References: <20070406234603.GI3784@fetter.org> <29960.1175907960@sss.pgh.pa.us> <4616F98B.9020506@pws.com.au> Comments: In-reply-to Russell Smith message dated "Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:53:15 +1000" Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:24:57 -0400 Message-ID: <847.1175912697@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200704/4 X-Sequence-Number: 4200 Russell Smith writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> 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. 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". regards, tom lane