Re: Ways to edit users and permissions for database

Thanks, creation works fine, but how do I read existing permissions through SQL, is there some SELECT-statement I can use?

Am 14.03.2012 um 08:43 schrieb John R Pierce:

> 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?
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> SQL commands like...
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> CREATE USER freddy WITH PASSWORD 'something';
> CREATe DATABASE freddb OWNER freddy;
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> issued same as any other SQL queries, via libpq etc.
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> note, the INFORMATION_SCHEMA is read only as its all implemented as VIEW's...
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