Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yes, I assumed we were following the recent work on ALTER TABLE/VIEW > > with GRANT/REVOKE. Peter, Tom, how is GRANT/REVOKE different? > > GRANT/REVOKE behavior is specified by the standard, whereas the stuff > we allow under ALTER VIEW is all an extension to the standard --- not > merely syntax-wise, but functionality. > > A concrete reason not to do it is that if someone writes GRANT ON VIEW, > their code won't port to other DBs that are following the spec, and > it'll be only because we allowed non-spec syntactic sugar, not because > they're using functionality not covered by the spec. > > We routinely complain about mysql inventing nonstandard ways to express > things that have perfectly good spec-compliant equivalents. How would > this be different?
OK, so this is a standards issue, then, OK, makes sense. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
