Re: some charts or graphs of possible permissions would be nice

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: stephen(at)onethree(dot)bio, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: some charts or graphs of possible permissions would be nice
Date: 2020-06-10 15:53:09
Message-ID: 20200610155309.GA13342@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2020-Jun-10, Laurenz Albe wrote:

> On Tue, 2020-06-09 at 21:34 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> > Having read through the documentation on roles/granting I think I more or
> > less understand how it works, but what isn't really clarified is what the
> > overall universe of permissions that can be granted looks like. For example
> > I still didn't realize that to create a schema, you need to "GRANT CREATE"
> > to the role on the database before the role is allowed to do that. It's hard
> > to make a mental map of everything that a new role might need when I am
> > creating it.
>
> That would be material for a tutorial rather than a documentation.

... but our documentation *does* have a tutorial, which could perhaps
gain a section about privileges.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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