On Mar 1, 2011, at 21:57 , Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to Magnus Reftel <magnus.reftel@gmail.com>:
>>
>> I'm working on a database that will have a very large number of users, and I'm running in to a problem: when I grant
morethan about 2500 users access to a schema, I get
>>
>> my_db=# grant usage on schema my_schema to some_user;
>> ERROR: row is too big: size 8168, maximum size 8164
>>
>> This of course makes access control tricky on high user-count setups.
> I would think that a better solution would be to follow best practices and
> create roles and put users in those roles, so you don't have to have so
> many grants on objects.
Right, that grant was actually useless, since the users already have usage rights to the schema via a role.
Problem solved. Sorry for the noise!
Thanks!
Magnus Reftel