Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com> writes:
> Well, the permissions handling would still be different between a view and
> a synonym AFAICS even if we dropped separate permissions on synonyms, so I
> don't think they're drop in replacements for each other even after
> updatable views.
Agreed, but given the fact that we seem to be inventing permissions
behavior for synonyms on the spur of the moment, I'm not convinced that
there's anything there that anyone should put great credence in. The
permissions behavior for views is at least standardized ...
regards, tom lane
