Re: Documentation clarification re: ANALYZE

On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 at 17:31, David G. Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 2:14 PM Isaac Morland <isaac(dot)morland(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm looking at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-analyze.html,
>> where it says “Without a table_and_columns list, ANALYZE processes every
>> table and materialized view in the current database that the current user
>> has permission to analyze.”.
>>
>> I don’t believe there is a separate “analyze” permission, so which tables
>> is this? Tables owned by the user? Ones where it can insert/update/delete?
>> Ones where it can select?
>>
>
> Owners only - at least in previous releases. I don't recall whether the
> addition of new roles to cover subsets of administrative privileges ever
> was extended to cover vacuum/analyze but I do not think it has.
>

Thanks. So presumably I would also have permission if I have SET ROLEd to
the owner, or to a role which is an INHERIT member of the owner.