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From: Erik Wienhold <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Stuart McGraw <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Restoring default privileges on objects
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 21:50:30 +0200 (CEST)
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> On 29/08/2023 21:27 CEST Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Yeah, perhaps.  The reason it so seldom comes up is that a state of
> zero privileges is extremely rare (because it's useless in practice).
>
> That being the case, if we were to do something about this, I'd vote
> for changing the display of zero-privileges to "(none)" or something
> along that line, rather than changing the display of NULL, which
> people are accustomed to.

+1

> Fixing \dp to honor "\pset null" for this might be a reasonable
> thing to do too.  I'm actually a bit surprised that that doesn't
> work already.

Looks like all commands in src/bin/psql/describe.c set nullPrint = NULL.  Has
been that way since at least 1999.

--
Erik

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