Re: How do I revoke CREATE TABLE and other privileges?

From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
To: John Purser <jmpurser(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Karen Hill <karen_hill22(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How do I revoke CREATE TABLE and other privileges?
Date: 2006-07-07 00:48:12
Message-ID: 20060707004812.GA51018@winnie.fuhr.org
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On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:55:40AM -0700, John Purser wrote:
> "Karen Hill" <karen_hill22(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> > Revoking PUBLIC worked. I can now login to the database and it will
> > not allow me to create new tables. However when I gave (as postgres)
> > the restricted user permission to execute one function it says it
> > cannot find the function when I try to execute it.
>
> You hopefully just need to edit your search path. See page 56 of the
> manual for details. Type 'show search_path;' into pgsql and see what
> the value is currently set to. Then use set to make it include the
> schema with your function.

The user probably needs USAGE on the schema. If a user has no
privileges on a schema then he or she can't access objects in that
schema regardless of search_path or the privileges on the objects
themselves.

--
Michael Fuhr

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