On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 3:05 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> (I wonder if it'd be practical or useful to emit a warning when
> granting permissions on an object that already has a grant of
> the same permissions to PUBLIC.  That would at least cue people
> who don't understand about this behavior that they ought to look
> more closely.)
>

We did something similar a while ago where we now warn if you try to revoke
a privilege on a role that is actually inherited from PUBLIC and so the
revoke on the role doesn't actually do anything.  The inverse seems
reasonable, and consistent that, at first blush.

David J.

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