Re: Permissions vs SERIAL columns

Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> If nothing else, this should at least be documented in
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/datatype.html#DATATYPE-SERIAL

I looked at this URL and just didn't see a good place to talk about
SERIAL sequence permissions, so I added something to the GRANT manual
page, attached.

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>
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 07:32:18PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Haven't seen this discussed in a while, but I do recall it being
> > mentioned sometime before...
> >
> >
> > The problem:
> > testdb=# create table mytable (id serial, txt text);
> > testdb=# grant insert on mytable to user2;
> > GRANT
> > testdb=# \connect testdb user2
> > You are now connected to database "testdb" as user "user2".
> > testdb=> insert into mytable (txt) values ('foobar');
> > ERROR: permission denied for sequence mytable_id_seq
> >
> >
> >
> > What I'd like to happen is for the grant for INSERT on the table to
> > cascade into an UPDATE permission on the sequence (when associated with
> > a SERIAL column only, of course).
> >
> > Coming from a different database, such as MSSQL, makes people forget
> > this very easily, and it becomes very annoying.
> >
> > Is this something that can be done without too much work? Anything you
> > can do in current pg even, just me not knowing how?
> >
> > //Magnus
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