Re: Allow GRANT/REVOKE permissions to be applied to all

Josh Berkus wrote:
> 
> And overall, I'd think it would make the feature a *lot* less useful; 
> basically it would encourage a lot of DBAs to organize their schemas by 
> security level, which is not really what schemas are for.
> 
> 
>>This does seem conceptually cleaner than GRANT ON NEW TABLES, which to
>>me has a flavor of action-at-a-distance about it.  Does anyone see any
>>cases where it's really important to have the distinction between acting
>>on existing tables and acting on future tables?
> 
> 
> Databases which are already in production.  I suggested it, of course, because 
> I would utilize the distinction if it was available.   I don't know about 
> other users.

Do we perhaps want a pg_find tool instead, rather than getting too 
clever inside the backend?

pg_find --type=table --schema=foo --name='system_*' --execute='GRANT ALL  ON % TO myuser'

--  Richard Huxton  Archonet Ltd