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For foreign keys, check REFERENCES privilege only on the referenced table.

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We were requiring that the user have REFERENCES permission on both the
referenced and referencing tables --- but this doesn't seem to have any
support in the SQL standard, which says only that you need REFERENCES
permission on the referenced table.  And ALTER TABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY has
already checked that you own the referencing table, so the check could
only fail if a table owner has revoked his own REFERENCES permission.
Moreover, the symmetric interpretation of this permission is unintuitive
and confusing, as per complaint from Paul Jungwirth.  So let's drop the
referencing-side check.

In passing, do a bit of wordsmithing on the GRANT reference page so that
all the privilege types are described in similar fashion.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8940.1490906755@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tom Lane
2017-03-31 18:11:25 -04:00
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@@ -750,9 +750,11 @@ CREATE [ [ GLOBAL | LOCAL ] { TEMPORARY | TEMP } | UNLOGGED ] TABLE [ IF NOT EXI
class="parameter">refcolumn</replaceable> list is omitted, the
primary key of the <replaceable class="parameter">reftable</replaceable>
is used. The referenced columns must be the columns of a non-deferrable
unique or primary key constraint in the referenced table. Note that
foreign key constraints cannot be defined between temporary tables and
permanent tables.
unique or primary key constraint in the referenced table. The user
must have <literal>REFERENCES</> permission on the referenced table
(either the whole table, or the specific referenced columns).
Note that foreign key constraints cannot be defined between temporary
tables and permanent tables.
</para>
<para>