Re: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Andrew Gold <agold(at)cbamedia(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE
Date: 2005-08-17 15:57:53
Message-ID: 20050817155753.GA23134@alvh.no-ip.org
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 08:35:06AM -0700, Andrew Gold wrote:

> This followed a series of descriptions of various privileges (select,
> insert, update, etc.). From the context of the description, it appears
> that "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES" bestows all of the preceding rights on the
> recipient user.
>
> It is not at all intuitive that "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES" gives a user the
> right to create schemas and temporary tables, and that alone.

If you have a suggestion for a better wording, please share -- there's
always room for improving the documentation.

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]alvh.no-ip.org>)
"Tiene valor aquel que admite que es un cobarde" (Fernandel)

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