Plus sign in column 'Access privileges' of command \dp
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Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/ddl-priv.html
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The last table of page https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-priv.html
shows that column ' Access privileges' can contain plus-signs at the end,
but what these plus-signs mean does not seem to be explained anywhere.
On Thu, 2025-07-17 at 12:59 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
The last table of page https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-priv.html
shows that column ' Access privileges' can contain plus-signs at the end,
but what these plus-signs mean does not seem to be explained anywhere.
That has nothing to do with privileges, that's just psql's standard
way of displaying newlines. See
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-psql.html#APP-PSQL-META-COMMAND-PSET-LINESTYLE
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
Oh, thank you very much for the clarification. Kind regards Peter
On Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 15:31 Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> wrote:
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On Thu, 2025-07-17 at 12:59 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
The last table of page
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-priv.html
shows that column ' Access privileges' can contain plus-signs at the end,
but what these plus-signs mean does not seem to be explained anywhere.That has nothing to do with privileges, that's just psql's standard
way of displaying newlines. Seehttps://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-psql.html#APP-PSQL-META-COMMAND-PSET-LINESTYLE
Yours,
Laurenz Albe