Re: Ways to edit users and permissions for database

On 03/14/12 12:38 AM, Alexander Reichstadt wrote:
> this was probably asked dozens of times before, but I couldn't find where, and neither in the docs and what I found on the web didn't make sense. I found how to create users and check their permissions using terminal. But I need to alter and create users and permissions through libpq or SQL directly. I also found there to be a reference on the INFORMATION_SCHEMA, but still couldn't make sense out of these tables in the given context. This is to make a user administration inside the client frontend. What approach would be recommended for this purpose?

SQL commands like...

CREATE USER freddy WITH PASSWORD 'something';
CREATe DATABASE freddb OWNER freddy;

issued same as any other SQL queries, via libpq etc.

note, the INFORMATION_SCHEMA is read only as its all implemented as
VIEW's...

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