Re: Grant question - More

From: Martin Marques <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar>
To: blindsey(at)cog(dot)ufl(dot)edu
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Grant question - More
Date: 2004-01-29 19:45:59
Message-ID: 200401291645.59995.martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar
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El Jue 29 Ene 2004 16:26, Barbara Lindsey escribió:
> What permission does a user need to have to query the pg_ tables
> (pg_attribute, pg_class, etc) ? Do they require special permissions?

What kind of queries? Read or Write?

Users have permission to read from most catalog tables. One they can't read
for security resons is pg_shadow:

prueba=> select * from pg_shadow;
ERROR: pg_shadow: permission denied

Saludos... :-)

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