Re: Grant SELECT on all tables of a database

This does the JOB...thank you very much!!!!

Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:21 -0700, Marsha Ramsey wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> How do I GRANT SELECT to all my tables at once? I have over 1026
> tables in this database...

I don't think there is any direct SQL command to do it. But try this:

psql -d your_database
\t
\a
\o /tmp/sqlscript
SELECT 'GRANT SELECT ON ' || schemaname || '.' || tablename ||
' TO PUBLIC ;'
FROM pg_tables
WHERE tableowner = CURRENT_USER;
\o
\i /tmp/sqlscript

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