Bug #549: select table privilege in postgres allows user to create index on the table

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Subject: Bug #549: select table privilege in postgres allows user to create index on the table
Date: 2002-01-03 16:12:05
Message-ID: 200201031612.g03GC5c47647@postgresql.org
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Shahid Mohammad Shamsi (mshamsi(at)dinmar(dot)com) reports a bug with a severity of 2
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Short Description
select table privilege in postgres allows user to create index on the table

Long Description
I created a user and assigned select privilege on a table. The user can not insert any data or add a field to the table. But, the user can create indexes on the table despite having select only privileges. This becomes a serious problem if the user can create unique indexes.

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