On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 2:52 AM, Tal Walter wrote:
> I'd appreciate if you could help me understand how I can research the
> answers to these type of questions by myself.
> Could I perhaps search the commit
> comments somehow? Or perhaps a different approach to suggest?
In addition to Tom's sugg
Tal Walter writes:
> 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 s
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 som
> "Tom" == Tom Lane 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
Tal Walter writes:
>- Why in the roles system, user are actually roles with login attribute
>and not a separate entity.
Groups and users used to be separate concepts, actually, a long time ago.
We got rid of that because it was a PITA; in particular, grants to groups
had to be represented
Dear list,
I'm interested in pgsql, and would like to know more about the design
decisions behind it's features.
Where should I search in order to know more about subjects, for example:
- Why in the roles system, user are actually roles with login attribute
and not a separate entity.
- W
