Thanks Tom and Andrew! This is indeed interesting. Because I have a couple more of these questions, and I prefer to avoid receiving a RTFM, I'd appreciate if you could help me understand how I can research the answers to these type of questions by myself.
The example questions I gave are just some of the questions I've tried to search the answer to, using google and searching this mailing list specifically, but I came up with nothing. Could I perhaps search the commit comments somehow? Or perhaps a different approach to suggest? Thanks for the interesting comments and help! On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Andrew Gierth <and...@tao11.riddles.org.uk> wrote: > >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: > > >> - Why to read from a table, both a usage permission on the schema > >> and a read access permission on the table is needed? > > Tom> Because the SQL standard says so. > > You'd think, but in fact it doesn't; the spec (at least 2008 and the > 2011 drafts) has no concept of grantable permissions on schemas, and > ties table ownership and schema ownership together. > > (See the definition of <privileges> to see that there's nothing there > for schemas, and the definition of <table definition> for the fact that > it's the schema owner who also owns the table and gets the initial > grants on it, and <drop table statement> and <alter table statement> to > confirm that only the schema owner can alter or drop the table. The > access rules for <table reference> only require permission on a table > column, no mention of schemas.) > > -- > Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad) >
