Re: postgres function does not handle PUBLIC - expected?

Kasia Tuszynska wrote:
> Szymon,
>
> The PUBLIC role is a default, non login role, that is created with every
> postgres cluster/instance.
>
> To my knowledge PUBLIC is a standard user in any rdbms. So, existence
> of public is not the issue here.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Kasia
>

Kasia,
I think your assumption is wrong. I've been using postgres for a lot of years and never saw a PUBLIC role created
by default in all the installations I've ever done. It's certainly possible that various other RDBMSs may assume the
existence of such a role/user, but my experience is that the only default role in "our world" is named postgres.

So I think this does have everything to do with your issue. Why don't you give it a shot and try to create a user
named PUBLIC?

good luck,
~c

>
>
> *From:* Szymon Guz [mailto:mabewlun(at)gmail(dot)com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 10, 2010 12:11 PM
> *To:* Kasia Tuszynska
> *Cc:* pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> *Subject:* Re: [ADMIN] postgres function does not handle PUBLIC - expected?
>
>
>
> 2010/8/10 Kasia Tuszynska <ktuszynska(at)esri(dot)com <mailto:ktuszynska(at)esri(dot)com>>
>
> Hello Postgres Gurus,
>
>
>
> Is it expected behavior for the has_table_privilege postgres function to
> not handle the user PUBLIC? Or should I submit a bug?
>
>
>
> The has_table_privilege function does not handle PUBLIC – the following
> queries returns the error:
>
> SELECT has_table_privilege ('PUBLIC','bob.gdb.test1','SELECT') AS SELECT,
>
> has_table_privilege ('PUBLIC','bob.gdb.test1','INSERT') AS INSERT,
>
> has_table_privilege ('PUBLIC','bob.gdb.test1','DELETE') AS DELETE,
>
> has_table_privilege ('PUBLIC','bob.gdb.test1','UPDATE') AS UPDATE;
>
>
>
> ERROR: role "PUBLIC" does not exist
>
> SQL state: 42704
>
>
>
> SELECT has_table_privilege ('public','bob.gdb.test1','SELECT') AS SELECT,
>
> has_table_privilege ('public','bob.gdb.test1','INSERT') AS INSERT,
>
> has_table_privilege ('public','bob.gdb.test1','DELETE') AS DELETE,
>
> has_table_privilege ('public','bob.gdb.test1','UPDATE') AS UPDATE;
>
>
>
> ERROR: role "public" does not exist
>
> SQL state: 42704
>
> Thank you,
>
> Sincerley,
>
> Kasia
>
>
>
> Do you have any role that is named PUBLIC? I think that you don't have
> one. Check e.g. in the table pg_user.
>
>
>
> regards
>
> Szymon
>