Re: Strange Grant behavior in postgres 8.3

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 17:42, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Clemens Schwaighofer
> <clemens(dot)schwaighofer(at)tequila(dot)jp> wrote:
>
>> But yesterday I run in some issues with table ownership and thought if I
>> just give the user all rights for the DB, he should have all rights to
>> the tables too.
>
> Try granting select on a database and you will get this:
>
> grant select on database smarlowe to stan;
> ERROR: invalid privilege type SELECT for database
>
> OTOH,
>
> grant connect on database smarlowe to stan;
> GRANT
>
> But even easier is to use the db owner as the ROLE instead of as a
> user, and just
>
> alter group guywhoownsthedb add user guywhodoesnt;

Thats a very good idea. Probably easier to handle, if you need to add
just another user or so.

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