Re: Help me understanding the schema

From: "Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)" <andy-lists(at)networkmail(dot)eu>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kiswono Prayogo <kiswono(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Help me understanding the schema
Date: 2009-12-05 22:08:58
Message-ID: 018EAD66-E9EB-4551-92BC-48226C43E205@networkmail.eu
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Hi Scott,

>> 7. we can set the privilege of user x for schema y
>> ie. database aaa contains schema a1, a2 and a3. user xx can query from
>> schema a1 only, user yy can query from schema a2 only?
> No, perms on schemas control schema actions like create. perms on
> tables control user access.

I thought that a user also had to have the USAGE right on a schema? In an application I'm working on at the moment, it threw the error "permission denied on schema xxx" even if permissions on the tables within the schema were OK - I had to assign the USAGE right on the schema.

Regards,
Andy

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