Delightful - thanks for the news. in mean times seans comments will get
me out of trouble, so thanks again sean
glenn
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 11:41 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Sean Davis <sdavis2(at)mail(dot)nih(dot)gov> writes:
> > If this is the way you are going to set things up, then I would just set up
> > all the users to connect to all databases. Then, users can set permissions
> > for their databases to limit privileges.
>
> This will work a lot better as of 8.2; we've added a CONNECT privilege
> for databases that can be manipulated with ordinary GRANT/REVOKE commands.
> Unfortunately that's not in any released version :-(
>
> For the moment, the easiest way to handle it is via groups. The trick
> is to create a group associated with each database (and named the same
> as the database), then use the "samegroup" option in pg_hba.conf to show
> that people can log into databases if they are members of the
> corresponding group. Then granting and revoking group membership gets
> the job done without any changes in pg_hba.conf.
>
> regards, tom lane
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