Re: Which GRANTS are needed on a Sequnce?

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Dani Oderbolz <oderbolz(at)ecologic(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-novice <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Which GRANTS are needed on a Sequnce?
Date: 2003-06-27 14:59:56
Message-ID: 20030627145956.GD15269@wolff.to
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On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 16:43:49 +0200,
Dani Oderbolz <oderbolz(at)ecologic(dot)de> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I just created a Sequence S for User A.
> User B has the USAGE Privilage in Schema A.
> I granted SELECT On S TO B.
> But this does not seem to be enough to use the Sequcence,
> postgres claims:
> [1] ERROR: S.nextval: you don't have permissions to set sequence S
> So I granted ALL ON S TO B
> which works fine.
> What are the minimal grants neeeded? (And where is it documented,
> the reference of 7.3.3 sais nothing about Sequences)

You need to grant update access to the sequence.
This is documented at:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.3&idoc=0&file=sql-grant.html
Look under what access is granted by update.

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