Re: pg_dump dump catalog ACLs

On 03/02/2016 12:54 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Joe Conway (mail@joeconway.com) wrote:
>> On 03/01/2016 08:00 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Yes, we'd need some way to mark non-null ACLs as being "built-in
>>> defaults".  I do not see the need to have SQL syntax supporting that
>>> though.
>>
>> I was thinking the supporting syntax might be used by extensions, for
>> example.
>
> I tend to agree with Tom that we don't really need SQL syntax for this.

> I don't see any reason it couldn't be used by extensions also, though
> we'd have to do a bit more work on pg_dump to make it actually dump
> out any non-default ACLs for extension-owned objects.

Without any syntax, what does the extension do, directly insert into
this special catalog table?

Joe

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