Re: Foreign tables, user mappings and privilege setup - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: Foreign tables, user mappings and privilege setup
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Msg-id 1535712efb8ba93932ff5994213a7f21c0db3e56.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Foreign tables, user mappings and privilege setup  (Niels Jespersen <NJN@dst.dk>)
Responses SV: Foreign tables, user mappings and privilege setup
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On Mon, 2020-09-21 at 08:21 +0000, Niels Jespersen wrote:
> create user mapping for current_user server s... (user 'remoteuser', password 'remotepassword');
> 
> create foreign table t....   ( a int) server s... options (table_name 't_remote');
> 
> This works fine. Except only the user who created the user mapping can select from foreign table, even if other users
haveselect privilege on the table. They will get a "user mapping not found
 
> for...".

You have to create a user mapping for every user that is to access the foreign table.

If several users should have the same credentials, use a group.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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