From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Petr Jelinek <pjmodos@pjmodos.net>
Subject: Re: GRANT ON ALL IN schema
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:15:04 -0400
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> I think you should design this with a bit wider scope. Instead of just "all
> tables in this schema", think "all tables satisfying some condition". It has
> been requested, for example, to be able to grant on all tables that match a
> pattern.
I'm against that. Functionality of that sort is available now if you
really need it (write a plpgsql loop around an EXECUTE) and it's fairly
hard to see a clean syntax that is significantly more general than
"GRANT ON schema.*". In particular I strongly advise against getting
into supporting user-defined predicates in GRANT. There are good
reasons for not having utility statements evaluate random expressions.
regards, tom lane
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