On 2023-10-09 22:34 +0200, David G. Johnston write: > On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 12:13 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Yeah. There is a lot of attraction in having \pset null affect these > > displays just like all other ones. The fact that they act differently > > now is a wart, not something we should replace with a different special > > case behavior. > > > > Also, I'm fairly concerned about not changing the default behavior here. > > The fact that this behavior has stood for a couple dozen years without > > many complaints indicates that there's not all that big a problem to be > > solved. I doubt that a new default behavior will be well received, > > even if it's arguably better. > > > > My position is that the default behavior should be changed such that the > distinction these reports need to make between empty privileges and default > privileges is impossible for the user to remove. I suppose the best direct > solution given that goal is for the query to simply do away with any > reliance on NULL being an indicator. Output an i18n'd "no permissions > present" line in the rare empty permissions situation and leave the empty > string for built-in default.
My initial patch does exactly that. > If the consensus is to not actually fix these views to make them > environment invariant in their accuracy then so be it. Having them obey > \pset null seems like a half-measure but it at least is an improvement over > the status quo such that users are capable of altering their system to make > the reports distinguish the two cases if they realize the need. I agree. -- Erik
