Re: How to grant a user read-only access to a database?

From: Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie>
To: Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Antonio Goméz Soto <antonio(dot)gomez(dot)soto(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists(at)itech7(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to grant a user read-only access to a database?
Date: 2010-03-02 15:14:53
Message-ID: 4B8D2B6D.9030108@iol.ie
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On 02/03/2010 14:56, Thom Brown wrote:
>>
>> But I still need to define access to each table separately?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Antonio.
>>
>
> As far as I'm aware. It's only in the upcoming version 9.0 that you
> can do things like:
>
> GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO readonly;
>
> Other folk on here may have some alternative suggestions though.

I think people have in the past posted queries that extract the table
names from the system catalogues and then grant privileges on them....
it might be worthwhile having a trawl through the archives.

Ray.

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Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland
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