Re: roles and inheritance

Hi, Carol.

ALTER Role John
INHERIT;

this will make the role John inherit permitions from the permition role
group they are in.

Carol Walter rašė:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm creating roles for the first time in Postgres. Up until now, I've
> only needed to grant privs to individuals. I've been going over the
> documentation on this and there is a part that is not very clear to
> me. It concerns inheritance. First of all, if I create the role
> database_name_select and add John and Mary to it, the role
> database_name_select won't inherit John and Mary's privs, will it? I
> do want John and Mary to inherit the privs of the database_name_select
> role. Do I set database_name_select with the option inherit or no
> inherit? The implication is that roles can inherit from other roles;
> is that correct?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Carol
>

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