On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 3:05 PM Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(I wonder if it'd be practical or useful to emit a warning when
granting permissions on an object that already has a grant of
the same permissions to PUBLIC. That would at least cue people
who don't understand about this behavior that they ought to look
more closely.)
We did something similar a while ago where we now warn if you try to revoke a privilege on a role that is actually inherited from PUBLIC and so the revoke on the role doesn't actually do anything. The inverse seems reasonable, and consistent that, at first blush.
David J.
