Re: [HACKERS] Table permissions problem

> Thus spake Bruce Momjian
> > > 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.
>
> Hmm. That makes it difficult. I would like to build databases from
> scripts. I guess I can build them as the super user.
>
> Shouldn't the database owner have more privs then someone using the
> database? Is that what that TODO item is actually suggesting?

Remember some tables are shared with all databases. Makes things more
difficult.

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