"Dave Held" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't know what a permission of "*" means, so that's what I call "limbo".
It means you still have grant options. This is fixed in 8.0.
regards, tom lane
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> -Original Message-
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 6:11 PM
> To: Dave Held
> Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Irrevocable privileges
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> "Dave Held" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
"Dave Held" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think it's silly that any privileges that an owner grants to himself =
> are essentially irrevocable.
Say again? An owner can certainly revoke his own ordinary privileges.
> Consider:
> User joe creates table foo
> User joe grants permission rw to him
Title: Irrevocable privileges
I think it's silly that any privileges that an owner grants to himself are
essentially irrevocable. It's silly because it makes changing the object
owner pointless. Consider:
User joe creates table foo
User joe grants permission rw to himself on foo
User
