On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I wrote: >> ... But this type of problem has come >> up before. I wonder if we shouldn't do what was previously discussed: >> make has_table_privilege and related functions silently return FALSE, >> instead of throwing error, when given a "nonexistent" OID. > > On checking the archives, it seems most of the previous complaints have > been about "cache lookup failed" errors arising from pg_table_is_visible > and its ilk; those are used in the queries generated by psql's \d > commands. > > So my proposal is to change the OID-accepting variants of > has_table_privilege and friends, as well as pg_table_is_visible and > friends, to silently return FALSE instead of failing when given a > bad OID. I had originally thought we might change the underlying
Or maybe NULL? ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
