Re: pre-proposal: permissions made easier

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 05:27:19PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> David Fetter wrote:
>>   
>>>  * Users who come from MySQL every once in a while, annoyed that
>>>  we don't support "GRANT ... *" syntax.
>>>     
>>
>> I'm missing what's wrong with a wild-card GRANT syntax for this
>> case.
>
> Without a major change in the way we do permissions, it will not
> work  prospectively.  We have no way ATM to store permissions for an
> object  that does not currently exist.

There have been previous discussions of prospective permissions
changes.  Are we restarting them here?

Cheers,
David.
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