On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:04:54AM -0700, germ germ wrote:
> This is the error: 2005-07-28 08:51:08 ERROR:
> permission denied for sequence requests_req_num_seq
>
> I've tried these grants, but no luck:
> GRANT ALL ON FUNCTION nextval(integer) TO wwwrun,
> postgres;
> GRANT ALL ON FUNCTION nextval('requests_req_num_seq')
> TO wwwrun, postgres;
> GRANT ALL ON FUNCTION nextval() TO wwwrun, postgres;
It's not the nextval() function itself that needs permission, it's
the sequence. Try this:
GRANT UPDATE, SELECT ON requests_req_num_seq TO wwwrun;
Granting update on a sequence allows the use of nextval() and
setval() on that sequence; granting select allows currval().
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/sql-grant.html
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Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
