Re: prevent users from SELECT-ing from pg_roles/pg_database - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: prevent users from SELECT-ing from pg_roles/pg_database
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Msg-id 1666.1716853697@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: prevent users from SELECT-ing from pg_roles/pg_database  (Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>)
Responses Re: prevent users from SELECT-ing from pg_roles/pg_database
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Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> writes:
> On Mon, 2024-05-27 at 09:33 +0200, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
>> I tried:
>>    REVOKE SELECT ON pg_catalog.pg_database FROM public;
>> But that doesn't prevent a normal user from querying pg_database it seems…

> It works here.

Works for me too, although you'd have to do it over in each
database where you want it to be effective.  (Although
pg_database is a shared catalog, the metadata about it
is not shared.)

            regards, tom lane



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