Re: grant everything on everything and then revoke

On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:29:17 -0800
John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:

> Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:
> > I'd like to have different users mainly to have a different
> > search schema path.
> > Things may evolve so this is not going to be the only reason to
> > have more than one user.

> > But I'm faced with the problem of granting the same access of the
> > owner of the db to the other users.

> ...

> have the database owned by a 'ROLE and make your users members of
> that ROLE.

This looks really neat for the beginning and it doesn't even look as
an hack ;)
What if I had to differentiate privileges of each user?
Will revoking privileges on each users work?

I didn't understand how

CREATE SCHEMA schemaname AUTHORIZATION username;

AUTHORIZATION really works and maybe it could be another way to
approach the problem.

Thanks to everybody.

Even the pointer to the functions was interesting.
The acl_admin.grant_on_all seems what my initial quest was looking
for, but the ROLE trick seems much more straight forward currently.

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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
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