Re: CREATE USER system privilege?

Hi admins

Long ago I was asking about system privilege "create user" and
procedures to create users without superuser rights.
Now I have finished some pgplsql-Procedures for granting this rights to
a normal operator.

You can find them on
http://mypage.bluewin.ch/shinguz/PostgreSQL/skripts/f_create_user.tar.gz

Regards Oli

Tom Lane wrote:

>Oli Sennhauser <oli(dot)sennhauser(at)bluewin(dot)ch> writes:
>
>
>>>You need to use EXECUTE to construct this query as a string.
>>>
>>>
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>>Facit: pgplsql does not work for my problem, execute does not work problem.
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>I didn't think I would have to spell it out in gory detail ...
>
>regression=# create or replace function cruser(text) returns void as '
>regression'# begin
>regression'# execute ''CREATE USER '' || quote_ident($1);
>regression'# return;
>regression'# end' language plpgsql;
>CREATE FUNCTION
>regression=# select cruser('foo');
> cruser
>--------
>
>(1 row)
>
>regression=# select cruser('bar');
> cruser
>--------
>
>(1 row)
>
>regression=# select usename from pg_user;
> usename
>-----------------------
> postgres
> pleb
> foo
> bar
>(5 rows)
>
>regression=#
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>
>

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