Re: Grant question - More - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martin Marques
Subject Re: Grant question - More
Date
Msg-id 200401291645.59995.martin@bugs.unl.edu.ar
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In response to Re: Grant question - More  (Barbara Lindsey <blindsey@cog.ufl.edu>)
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El Jue 29 Ene 2004 16:26, Barbara Lindsey escribió:
> What permission does a user need to have to query the pg_ tables
> (pg_attribute, pg_class, etc) ?  Do they require special permissions?

What kind of queries? Read or Write?

Users have permission to read from most catalog tables. One they can't read
for security resons is pg_shadow:

prueba=> select * from pg_shadow;
ERROR:  pg_shadow: permission denied

Saludos... :-)

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