* Peter Eisentraut (pete...@gmx.net) wrote: > On sön, 2010-08-22 at 15:08 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > Even though the permissions on the child table aren't invovled at all if > > queried through the parent..? The parent implicitly adds to the set of > > privileges which are granted on the child, but that's not clear at all > > from the permissions visible on the child. That's principally what I'm > > complaining about here. > > Perhaps this is a user interface issue then. Maybe the fact that a > table is inherited from another one needs to be shown closer to > whereever the permissions are listed.
That's a nice idea, except that we've got a pretty well defined API
regarding how to determine what the privileges on a table are, and many
different UIs which use it. Fixing it in psql (if it needs to be..
iirc, \d or \d+ may already show it) doesn't really address the problem,
in my view.
Thanks,
Stephen
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