Plus sign in column 'Access privileges' of command \dp

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#1PG Bug reporting form
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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.

#2Laurenz Albe
laurenz.albe@cybertec.at
In reply to: PG Bug reporting form (#1)
Re: Plus sign in column 'Access privileges' of command \dp

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

#3P M
petermittere@gmail.com
In reply to: Laurenz Albe (#2)
Re: Plus sign in column 'Access privileges' of command \dp

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. See

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-psql.html#APP-PSQL-META-COMMAND-PSET-LINESTYLE

Yours,
Laurenz Albe