Re: Follow-up OpenOffice and Postgres 7.3.2

Adrian,

There was a bug in the driver in dealing with default permissions for
the owner. I fixed that bug last night and posted a new build for 7.3
(build 109) on the website. Give this a try.

thanks,
--Barry

Adrian Klaver wrote:
> I created a table from within OO 1.01 and had no write privileges. The first
> problem is that OO will not grant editing rights to a table without a primary
> key. As you found out you cannot create an index from within OO. The second
> problem is that creating a table in OO does nothing to the relacl column in
> pg_class. As Tom wrote a null value is considered by Postgres to be full
> permissions for the owner. The JDBC driver sees things differently and would
> not allow me to edit until I used GRANT to populate relacl with permissions.
> The third problem is that disconnecting and reconnecting from within OO did
> not catch the change. The only way to make the change apparent was to shut OO
> down and then reopen it. There must be caching of values going on behind the
> scenes.
> On Wednesday 19 March 2003 02:01 am, Dave Cramer wrote:
>
>>I haven't been able to recreate any of this???
>>
>>When a table is made, it automatically is owned by the owner of the
>>connection, so it should have write privleges by the owner???
>>
>>I did note that oo defaults to trying to use the connection owners name
>>for schema, I forced it to public when I created my tables. Does that
>>make a difference ?
>>
>>I did find one more thing though
>>
>>oo tries to create index's using the following syntax; which won't work
>>
>>CREATE INDEX "id_idx" ON "public"."ootable" ( "id" DESC)
>>
>>Dave
>>
>>On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 04:36, Dave Cramer wrote:
>>
>>>The driver doesn't do anything when a "create table foo ..." is
>>>executed, and there is no api for modifying the user permissions ??
>>>
>>>Dave
>>>
>>>On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 00:53, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>
>>>>Adrian Klaver <aklaver(at)attbi(dot)com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>I finally tracked down the problem. You have to use the GRANT command
>>>>>to set privileges on your table. Postgres assumes the table owner has
>>>>>all rights but does do not write that info into the access control
>>>>>list of pg_class. It would seem the JDBC driver looks to pg_class for
>>>>>information on permissions.
>>>>
>>>>Hm. The backend treats NULL in pg_class.relacl as meaning the default
>>>>permissions (owner = all, everyone else = none). I wonder whether jdbc
>>>>gets that right?
>>>>
>>>> regards, tom lane
>>>>
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