Gotcha. 'twas the first time I encountered it, I wasn't expecting it. Thank you for the clarification. I hadn't paid attention to that paragraph when I read over it.
David Tom Lane wrote: >David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>heakin=> \z >>Access privileges for database "heakin" >> Table | Access privileges >>-------------------+------------------- >> interviewers | >> >> > > > >>heakin=> grant select,insert,update on interviewers to heakin; >>GRANT >>heakin=> \z >>Access privileges for database "heakin" >> Table | Access privileges >>-------------------+-------------------- >> interviewers | {=,heakin=arwdRxt} >> >> > >I take it heakin is the owner of the table in question. As such, >he implicitly has all privileges --- the initial null privilege list >is a shorthand for what you see explicitly in the second case. > >The GRANT man page in current development sources has an example about >this; see the Notes section of >http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/sql-grant.html > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]