Re: ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES FOR ROLE is broken

On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>> The fine manual notes that the target role has to already have CREATE
>> privileges on the target schema --- maybe that's what's biting you in
>> this case?
>
> Nope. That was the first thing I thought of. It really is that the
> target role must *own* the schema. So clearly a bug.

wfm.

rhaas=# create user bob;
CREATE ROLE
rhaas=# create schema we_like_bob;
CREATE SCHEMA
rhaas=# alter default privileges for role bob in schema we_like_bob
grant select on tables to bob;
ERROR: permission denied for schema we_like_bob
rhaas=# grant create on schema we_like_bob to bob;
GRANT
rhaas=# alter default privileges for role bob in schema we_like_bob
grant select on tables to bob;
ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES

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