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Andrew Gilligan wrote:
>
> On 20 Jan 2008, at 04:34, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Andrew Gilligan <andy@tcpd.net> writes:
> >> Showing the size on \l+ probably makes more sense, but I imagine that
> >> would require a very different approach due to the permissions
> >> changes?
> >
> > I haven't experimented, but perhaps something along the lines of
> >
> > case when has_database_privilege(current_user, db.oid, 'connect')
> > then pg_database_size...
> > else null
> > end
> >
> > would fix it.
>
>
> Yep, that seems to do the trick.
>
> I've attached an updated patch (based on 8.3RC2) that adds the ACL
> information to \l and the size to \l+ if available.
>
> Best regards,
> -Andy
>
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