Re: Effects of REVOKE SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA pg_catalog FROM PUBLIC

From: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas(at)visena(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Effects of REVOKE SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA pg_catalog FROM PUBLIC
Date: 2024-09-12 13:53:02
Message-ID: CAKAnmm+qs8yrviNEbdJf-NLwBiYSxWYN0RHJkcCTjZZVyY8huA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 9:12 AM Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 3:06 PM Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > (Also note that determining if a database or user exists does not even
> require a successful login to the cluster.)
>
> Hi. How so? I was not aware of such possibilities.
> Can you please give pointers (docs, examples) of this?
>

$ psql -U eve
psql: error: connection to server on socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed:
FATAL: role "eve" does not exist

$ psql -U postgres -d theater
psql: error: connection to server on socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed:
FATAL: database "theater" does not exist

$ psql -U alice -d template1
psql: error: connection to server on socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed:
FATAL: password authentication failed for user "alice"

Cheers,
Greg

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