Re: Does a GRANT on a table cascade/implied to its SEQUENCES

From: "Roderick A(dot) Anderson" <raanders(at)acm(dot)org>
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Subject: Re: Does a GRANT on a table cascade/implied to its SEQUENCES
Date: 2006-07-25 18:22:31
Message-ID: 44C66167.10609@acm.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders(at)acm(dot)org> writes:
>
>>I've add a new user and as I go though granting various accesses to the
>>different tables I realized many of those tables have primary keys that
>>are generated by a sequence.
>
>
>>Do I need to grant access on the sequences and what type of access --
>>SELECT for sure but what about UPDATE -- for each of the tables I've
>>granted the user access to?
>
>
> Right now, GRANT on a table doesn't do anything about subsidiary
> sequences. (There have been discussions about changing that, but
> nothing's happened yet.) So if you want someone to be able to INSERT
> into a table with a serial column, you need to give them UPDATE rights
> on the sequence. Offhand I see no direct reason why they'd need SELECT
> rights on the sequence, but maybe they do.

Thanks for the clarification Tom.

Rod
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