Kyle Bateman <kyle(at)actarg(dot)com> writes:
> Can anyone point me where to look in the system catalogs (or information
> schema) to determine in advance whether a given user (or the current
> user) will have select permission to a given table or view?
Try has_table_privilege()
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/functions-info.html
regards, tom lane