From: | Gary Stainburn <gary(dot)stainburn(at)ringways(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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To: | Ray Stell <stellr(at)vt(dot)edu> |
Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: create role? |
Date: | 2012-12-21 10:12:24 |
Message-ID: | 201212211012.24124.gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk |
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On Thursday 20 December 2012 18:30:24 Ray Stell wrote:
> I'm not really that lazy, I was just stuck in the oracle world view (grant
> priv to user). Your search strings don't fit in that logic. It looks
> like sys privs are never provided by grant, rather create or alter. Hmm,
> sans CONNECT, which seems rather system priv to me. MIght make for a handy
> additional comment to
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/sql-grant.html 'For system
> privileges see "ALTER ROLE."'
Think of a role as permissions to do tasks whereas grant gives you access to
objects.
You are granted permission to a table/view etc.
Your role is to create other users, or create databases
I don't know any database system other than Postgresql so I don't know how it
compares to Oracle
--
Gary Stainburn
Group I.T. Manager
Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk
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