Re: GRANT ON ALL IN schema - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: GRANT ON ALL IN schema
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Msg-id 00E32148-189B-45CA-ADA9-2454AEBE50B5@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: GRANT ON ALL IN schema  (Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: GRANT ON ALL IN schema  (Petr Jelinek <pjmodos@pjmodos.net>)
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Isn't the answer to grant permissions to a role and then just put  
people in that role?

-- 
Greg


On 17 Jun 2009, at 17:25, Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> 2009/6/17 Petr Jelinek <pjmodos@pjmodos.net>:
>> I agree that Default ACLs are more important and I already offered  
>> Stephen
>> help on that. But I've seen countless requests for granting on all  
>> tables to
>> a user and I already got some positive feedback outside of the  
>> list, so I
>> believe there is demand for this. Also to paraphrase you Tom, by  
>> that logic
>> you can tell people to write half of administration functionality  
>> as plpgsql
>> functions.
>
> Indeed.
>
> How to do default ACLs and wildcards for GRANT is by far the most
> common question asked by our customers. And they don't understand why
> it's not by default in PostgreSQL.
>
> Installing a script/function for that on every database is just  
> painful.
>
> -- 
> Guillaume
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