Re: Grant CREATE privilege on all schemas

From: ivanov17(at)riseup(dot)net
To: Pgsql Novice <pgsql-novice(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Grant CREATE privilege on all schemas
Date: 2023-09-12 18:36:57
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Tom Lane писал(а) 2023-09-12 06:04:
> ivanov17(at)riseup(dot)net writes:
>> Is there a way to grant roles CREATE
>> privileges on all schemas?
>
> This is not supported, and it's not likely to ever become supported
> in exactly the way you phrased it, because that would presumably
> include CREATE on the pg_catalog schema.

Oh, now I understand. I think that if something like this is ever
implemented, system catalogs should not be accessible to such a role.

> If you give somebody
> that, you might as well just skip the fooling around and give them
> full superuser, because they could hack their way to that in less
> time than it's taking me to type this email. In general, you
> want to be pretty darn chary about giving out permissions on
> schemas that are likely to be in other users' search_path, for
> much the same reasons that you don't give random users write
> permission on /usr/bin/.

Thank you very much, now it becomes clearer to me.

--
With appreciation,
Ivanov

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