Re: problems with user rights

> i've just added a new user called xxx :
>
> create user xxx with password zzz;
>
> now am creating it's database :
>
> create database db_xxx with owner xxx;
>
> it works fine althought when logging with the user xxx i can still
> view other databases contents especially pg_catalog schems.
>
> is it the right way to add a user ? am i wrong ?
> i dont want to let my new user view the others databases on the server.

Viewing the information in the system catalogs is open to all users.
There is not a way to hide it unless you build an interface on top of
PostgreSQL that limits the queries the user can execute.

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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