Re: Grant on multiple objects

On Jan 1, 2005, at 2:18 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 11:04:16 -0500,
> Jason Dixon <jason(at)dixongroup(dot)net> wrote:
>> Is it possible to GRANT permissions on multiple objects at once? I
>> would like to assign limited permissions on multiple objects (tables,
>> indices, sequences in the same database) without granting full
>> ownership. For example, something like this:
>
> Yes, but not the way you want. You can list multiple objects of the
> same
> type when issuing a GRANT command. However you can't use a query in the
> GRANT statement to generate the list. If you are doing this
> programatically
> you could do a select for each type and use the results to build GRANT
> statements.

Thanks for clarifying this. I guess I'll write a DBD::Pg script to
automate much of the work.

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