Re: [HACKERS] Table permissions problem

> On Friday I asked.
>
> > Has something changed recently? I created a new database and it won't
> > let me insert unless I specifically grant myself privledges. It
> > shows as being owned by me. Also, I can't create a view. It says
> > "pg_rewrite: Permission denied." and doesn't create the view.
>
> I have since found out that it was changed so that no one, not even the
> owner, had full privs on the tables. I went in and changed my code
> to grant ALL on each database to the db owner. Everything is fine
> except that I still can't create a view. I still get that "pg_rewrite:
> Permission denied." error. Any ideas?
>

Only superuser. From TODO:

CREATE VIEW requires super-user priviledge

This is because someone who can modify pg_rewrite can create their own
view to modify any table.

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