Re: Follow-up OpenOffice and Postgres 7.3.2

Finally got around to trying the new build and it works as advertised.

Thank you
Adrian Klaver

On Monday 24 March 2003 08:27 am, Barry Lind wrote:
> Adrian,
>
> There was a bug in the driver in dealing with default permissions for
> the owner. I fixed that bug last night and posted a new build for 7.3
> (build 109) on the website. Give this a try.
>
> thanks,
> --Barry
>
> Adrian Klaver wrote:
> > I created a table from within OO 1.01 and had no write privileges. The
> > first problem is that OO will not grant editing rights to a table without
> > a primary key. As you found out you cannot create an index from within
> > OO. The second problem is that creating a table in OO does nothing to the
> > relacl column in pg_class. As Tom wrote a null value is considered by
> > Postgres to be full permissions for the owner. The JDBC driver sees
> > things differently and would not allow me to edit until I used GRANT to
> > populate relacl with permissions. The third problem is that disconnecting
> > and reconnecting from within OO did not catch the change. The only way
> > to make the change apparent was to shut OO down and then reopen it. There
> > must be caching of values going on behind the scenes.
> >
> > On Wednesday 19 March 2003 02:01 am, Dave Cramer wrote:
> >>I haven't been able to recreate any of this???
> >>
> >>When a table is made, it automatically is owned by the owner of the
> >>connection, so it should have write privleges by the owner???
> >>
> >>I did note that oo defaults to trying to use the connection owners name
> >>for schema, I forced it to public when I created my tables. Does that
> >>make a difference ?
> >>
> >>I did find one more thing though
> >>
> >>oo tries to create index's using the following syntax; which won't work
> >>
> >>CREATE INDEX "id_idx" ON "public"."ootable" ( "id" DESC)
> >>
> >>Dave
> >>
> >>On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 04:36, Dave Cramer wrote:
> >>>The driver doesn't do anything when a "create table foo ..." is
> >>>executed, and there is no api for modifying the user permissions ??
> >>>
> >>>Dave
> >>>
> >>>On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 00:53, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>>>Adrian Klaver <aklaver(at)attbi(dot)com> writes:
> >>>>>I finally tracked down the problem. You have to use the GRANT command
> >>>>>to set privileges on your table. Postgres assumes the table owner has
> >>>>>all rights but does do not write that info into the access control
> >>>>>list of pg_class. It would seem the JDBC driver looks to pg_class for
> >>>>>information on permissions.
> >>>>
> >>>>Hm. The backend treats NULL in pg_class.relacl as meaning the default
> >>>>permissions (owner = all, everyone else = none). I wonder whether jdbc
> >>>>gets that right?
> >>>>
> >>>> regards, tom lane
> >>>>
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