Subject: Re: Allow CURRENT_ROLE in GRANTED BY
To: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>,
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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 20:21:29 +0200
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On 2020-06-24 10:12, Vik Fearing wrote:
> On 6/24/20 8:35 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I was checking some loose ends in SQL conformance, when I noticed: We
>> support GRANT role ... GRANTED BY CURRENT_USER, but we don't support
>> CURRENT_ROLE in that place, even though in PostgreSQL they are
>> equivalent.  Here is a trivial patch to add that.
> 
> 
> The only thing that isn't dead-obvious about this patch is the commit
> message says "[PATCH 1/2]".  What is in the other part?

Hehe.  The second patch is some in-progress work to add the GRANTED BY 
clause to the regular GRANT command.  More on that perhaps at a later date.

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