On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Nov 1998 dkelson-list-pgsql-hackers(at)inconnect(dot)com wrote:
>
> > I compiled and install 6.4 according to the INSTALL doc.
> >
> > I created a database with "createdb test",
> >
> > running as user "postgres", I connected "psql template1" and ran:
> >
> > CREATE USER billybob WITH PASSWORD hehe CREATEDB CREATEUSER;
>
> Still being half asleep and just guessing (withoug looking it up), does
> the CREATEDB CREATEUSER also imply SELECT privileges? IOW, you may
> wanna try GRANT.
>From what I've read, you can't GRANT on a database, it has be a on an
object within a database.
It seems it is the chicken and the egg problem.