Phil Frost wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 06:36:30PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > I'm sure some people agree that there is a problem. It would help, > > however, if you were not talking about two different things at once. > > And it would help if you actually proposed a change that would improve > > matters. > > What two things are there? I think I've already proposed a solution: do > the schema usage check at the same time as all the other permission > checks. Alternately, document the behavior accurately. I've proposed > text here too, but the revisions keep missing the point. What needs > clarification?
What we should really do is have lastval() fail if the user does not have appropiate permissions on the schema. Having it not fail is a bug, and documenting a bug turns it not into a feature, but into a "gotcha". -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
