Re: [HACKERS] Curious (mis)behavior of access rights

2001-06-04 Thread Tom Lane
"Matthew T. O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The only downside of this is that we'd lose the "feature" of being able >> to revoke from a particular user a right that is available via PUBLIC to >> everyone else. > Could we add additional privlideges that explicitly restrict a user? > Perha

[HACKERS] Curious (mis)behavior of access rights

2001-06-04 Thread Tom Lane
A question from Joe Mitchell led me to investigate some access-checking behavior that seems kinda broken. Currently, when aclinsert3() creates a new entry in an ACL list, it effectively initializes the entry with the current PUBLIC access rights, rather than with zero rights. Thus: regression=#