Re: How to GRANT rights to modify a table ???

On 12/09/2009 16:44, Denis BUCHER wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A very annoying problem with Postgres is the following one :
>
> As postgres user, I give all rights to all objects of a database or
> schema to a colleague :
> GRANT ALL ON mytable TO mycolleague;
>
> But when he tries to modify something, even something really small like
> adding a column to a table :
> ALTER TABLE mytable ADD COLUMN field integer;
> ERROR: must be the owner of the mytable relation

The clue is in the error message :-) .... GRANTing ALL doesn't make them
the owner of the object as well.

For that, you have to do something like

ALTER TABLE mytable OWNER TO mycolleague;

- I forget the exact syntax, but it'll be in the docs.

Ray.

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