From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | richard coleman <rcoleman(dot)ascentgl(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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Subject: | Re: how to list privileges on the database object itself via SQL? |
Date: | 2023-04-26 18:05:01 |
Message-ID: | 880086.1682532301@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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richard coleman <rcoleman(dot)ascentgl(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Thanks for that. It still seems rather weird that there isn't a more
> straightforward way to get access to that information.
You could just read the system catalog documentation:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/catalogs.html
psql's queries are mostly useful as a shortcut to finding out
where to look.
> Also the SQL generated by psql -E doesn't seem to work on earlier versions
> of PostgreSQL:
Yeah, you'd need to try it against a server of the vintage you
care about. (Also read the documentation of the correct version.)
> Are you saying that the only place this information is stored
> is in an array in the datacl column of the pg_catalog.pg_database table?
Precisely.
> If that's the case then I am going to be forced to either write code to
> parse out that array, or write a looping union of multiple
> "has_database_privilege()" calls.
You were already pointed at aclexplode(), which might help.
select datname, a.* from pg_database, aclexplode(datacl) a;
regards, tom lane
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