Re: I can't drop a user if I don't drop his grants beforehand??????????????????

From: Nico Sabbi <nsabbi(at)officinedigitali(dot)it>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: I can't drop a user if I don't drop his grants beforehand??????????????????
Date: 2009-05-22 16:34:18
Message-ID: 4A16D40A.1080408@officinedigitali.it
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Tom Lane ha scritto:
> Nico Sabbi <nsabbi(at)officinedigitali(dot)it> writes:
>
>> i can't believe my eyes. Why on earth I can't drop a user without
>> previously revoking his privileges?
>>
>
> Yeah, it's a known limitation. The reason it's not implemented is that
> some of the privileges may be in other databases besides the particular
> one you're connected to, and the backend hasn't got any way to get at
> those databases to remove the entries.
>
> Maybe someday it'll get fixed, but don't hold your breath.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

Thanks.
Unfortunately role_usage_grants is emtpy and usage_privileges doesn't
contain what I expected to find,
so I had to iterate over the distinct table_schema in
iformation_schema.tables to drop the schema_usage grants.

Nico

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