Re: Out of date security docs

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Adam Haberlach wrote:

>
> This seems pretty out-of-date, since we seem to have had a 'CREATE GROUP' command
> for as long as I can remember -- are there any more accurate docs out there?
> How would I go about updating them?
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/postgres/security17760.htm
>
> /***/
> Currently, there is no easy interface to set up user groups. You have to
> explicitly insert/update the pg_group table. For example:
>
> jolly=> insert into pg_group (groname, grosysid, grolist)
> jolly=> values ('posthackers', '1234', '{5443, 8261}');
> INSERT 548224
> jolly=> grant insert on foo to group posthackers;
> CHANGE
> jolly=>
> /***/
>
>
The easiest thing to do is to write a small utility to do this. Here is a
litle perlscript (as attachement) that does the inserting feel free to use
it. You need DBI and DBD::Pg to use it.

- Einar Karttunen