Commit 9d596e0e authored by Tom Lane's avatar Tom Lane

Clarify per suggestion from Bruno Wolff.

parent d2f60825
......@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ GRANT UPDATE ON accounts TO joe;
GRANT SELECT ON accounts TO GROUP staff;
</programlisting>
The special <quote>user</quote> name <literal>PUBLIC</literal> can
be used to grant a privilege to every user on the system. Using
be used to grant a privilege to every user on the system. Writing
<literal>ALL</literal> in place of a specific privilege specifies that all
privileges will be granted.
</para>
......@@ -173,8 +173,12 @@ GRANT SELECT ON accounts TO GROUP staff;
<programlisting>
REVOKE ALL ON accounts FROM PUBLIC;
</programlisting>
The special privileges of the table owner are always implicit
and cannot be granted or revoked.
The special privileges of the table owner (i.e., the right to do
<command>DROP</>, <command>GRANT</>, <command>REVOKE</>, etc)
are always implicit in being the owner,
and cannot be granted or revoked. But the table owner can choose
to revoke his own ordinary privileges, for example to make a
table read-only for himself as well as others.
</para>
</sect1>
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