Re: Default permissions of system catalogs

> > Objections?
>
> I assume you are proposing the same privileges that you describe for a user
> table (i.e. by default only the owner (==superuser) has any access)?
>
> If so, this would break pgAdmin for any users who are not the superuser on
> their system as the majority of it's operation relies on examining the
> system catalogues. In this case I would *strongly* object.
>
> <thinks...> Surely this would also be the case for psql though - have I
> misunderstood something?

I assumed he was saying that the contents of pg_class permissions should
be interpreted the same whether it is a system table or not. He would
set the proper system table permissions so they are visible to all users
like it is now.

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