Re: Grant / Revoke functionality

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
Cc: Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar(at)frodo(dot)hserus(dot)net>, Alexander Priem <ap(at)cict(dot)nl>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Grant / Revoke functionality
Date: 2004-02-19 06:34:46
Message-ID: 29423.1077172486@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
>> You can use schemas. Just put everything under schema and grant user
>> rights to the schema...

> This is not accurate. The only schema level permissions are CREATE and
> USAGE they are independent of the permissions on the objects contained
> within. He would still need to grant access to the underlying objects.

Right, but he could grant the required rights to PUBLIC and rely on
schema-level USAGE to control whether particular users can actually
get at particular objects. It'd be a pretty coarse-grained structure,
but it might be good enough.

Personally I'd suggest looking at using groups ...

regards, tom lane

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