Re: Discovering privileges - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Murray Cumming
Subject Re: Discovering privileges
Date
Msg-id 1111337130.5820.7.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: Discovering privileges  (Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>)
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On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 08:42 -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 03:50:30PM +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 
> > I'm using the pg_user and pg_group system tables to discover the list of
> > users, and the groups to which they belong.
> > 
> > But how can I discover the privileges that these users and groups have
> > for the various tables. Is this also in one of the system tables?
> 
> You could look at pg_class.relacl,

I can't make much sense of that so far. Ca you give any clues on how
that works?

>  but the "Access Privilege Inquiry
> Functions" (has_table_privilege(), etc.) might be easier to use.
> 
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-info.html#FUNCTIONS-INFO-ACCESS-TABLE

Interesting. Is there anything like that for a group instead of a user?
I'm most interested in privileges of a group.

Thanks.

-- 
Murray Cumming
murrayc@murrayc.com
www.murrayc.com
www.openismus.com



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