Any idea what the spec says about this?

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:28:37PM +0000, Kirill Simonov wrote:
> 
> The following bug has been logged online:
> 
> Bug reference:      3499
> Logged by:          Kirill Simonov
> Email address:      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> PostgreSQL version: 8.2.4
> Operating system:   Linux
> Description:        no owner privileges in
> information_schema.table_privileges
> Details: 
> 
> Owner privileges are not listed in the output of the
> information_schema.table_privileges view when no privileges are granted to
> other users.  However if at least one GRANT statement was applied to a
> table, the table owner appears in the "table_privileges".
> 
> The following example illustrates the problem:
> 
> 
> -- initialize the test environment: create two users: test_owner and
> test_user and create a table test_table, which owner is test_owner.
> # create user test_owner;
> # create user test_user;
> # create table test_table ();
> # alter table test_table owner to test_owner;
> 
> -- table_privileges contains no rows for 'test_tables'
> # select grantee, privilege_type from information_schema.table_privileges
> where table_name = 'test_table';
> (0 rows)
> 
> -- add a privilege for some other user.
> # grant select on test_table to test_user;
> 
> -- suddenly, not only the test_user privileges appear in "table_privileges",
> but the "test_owner" privileges appear as well.
> # select grantee, privilege_type from information_schema.table_privileges
> where table_name = 'test_table';
>   grantee   | privilege_type 
> ------------+----------------
>  test_owner | SELECT
>  test_owner | DELETE
>  test_owner | INSERT
>  test_owner | UPDATE
>  test_owner | REFERENCES
>  test_owner | TRIGGER
>  test_user  | SELECT
> (7 rows)
> 
> -- drop test_*.
> # drop table test_table;
> # drop user test_user;
> # drop user test_owner;
> 
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