Re: select * from pgadmin_users; causes error - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: select * from pgadmin_users; causes error
Date
Msg-id 27928.982941781@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to RE: select * from pgadmin_users; causes error  (John Hatfield <jhatfield@g-s.com.au>)
List pgsql-admin
John Hatfield <jhatfield@g-s.com.au> writes:
> It looks as though the views are created the first time you login to
> pgAdmin.  So when I logged first as an ordinary user not as the postgres
> (database superuser), the views were created with this user as the owner.

> A trap for beginners!!

Indeed.  I wonder whether pgadmin actually needs to see the password
column.  If not, perhaps it could make a view of pg_user instead of
pg_shadow to avoid this problem.  If it does, selecting directly from
pg_shadow with no view seems like the most reliable way...

            regards, tom lane

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