On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On 9/23/15 3:41 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> I see. But it is a bit odd to hide this very fundamental behavior
> somewhere in a paragraph that starts out with something about roles.
>
> There is also a mistake, I believe: DELETE policies also take both a
> CHECK and a USING clause.
>
> I still find something about this weird, but I'm not sure what. It's
> not clear to me at what level this USING->CHECK mapping is applied. I
> can write FOR ALL USING and it will be mapped to CHECK for all actions,
> including INSERT, but when I write FOR INSERT USING it complains. Why
> doesn't it do the mapping that case, too?
We are really pushing our luck only hammering this stuff out now. But
I think I agree with Peter's concerns, FWIW.
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