Right now, if you do a REVOKE that doesn't actually revoke anything, it works silently. This can be a bit of a foot-gun. For example: CREATE FUNCTION f() RETURNS int as $$ SELECT 1; $$ LANGUAGE sql; REVOKE EXECUTE ON FUNCTION f() FROM lowpriv; Naively, it might be expected that `lowpriv` can't execute the function, but unless default privileges have been changed, `lowpriv` still can under the default grant of EXECUTE to PUBLIC. Since there was no previous grant to `lowpriv`, nothing actually changes in the ACL. This bit a client recently. Is it worth generating a warning in this case?