Re: postgres function does not handle PUBLIC - expected?

2010/8/10 Kasia Tuszynska <ktuszynska(at)esri(dot)com>

> Kevin,
> I know public is there from using it every day, but if it were not for you
> post I would not know how to prove it, none of the views, graphical admin
> tools etc. display it as a user.
>
> We found this issue because we can grant privs to public on a table, but
> could not revoke them. If I did not "know" that public was there ( because
> in my experience it is there in oracle, sql server and the Informix dbs) how
> would I check for it's existence on Postgres?
>
> Thank you,
> Kasia

"The key word PUBLIC refers to the implicitly defined group of all roles."
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/sql-revoke.html

<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/sql-revoke.html>So PUBLIC seems
to be a kind of magical role. I didn't know that, sorry for my previous, a
little bit confusing email.

regards
Szymon