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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:25:31 +0200
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Subject: Re: GRANT ON ALL IN schema
From: Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet@gmail.com>
To: Petr Jelinek <pjmodos@pjmodos.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>,
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2009/6/17 Petr Jelinek <pjmodos@pjmodos.net>:
> I agree that Default ACLs are more important and I already offered Stephen
> help on that. But I've seen countless requests for granting on all tables to
> a user and I already got some positive feedback outside of the list, so I
> believe there is demand for this. Also to paraphrase you Tom, by that logic
> you can tell people to write half of administration functionality as plpgsql
> functions.

Indeed.

How to do default ACLs and wildcards for GRANT is by far the most
common question asked by our customers. And they don't understand why
it's not by default in PostgreSQL.

Installing a script/function for that on every database is just painful.

-- 
Guillaume