On 18/02/10 10:23, dipti shah wrote:
> Thanks Richard. That makes sense. If I want to restrict DROP for any table
> then do I need to REVOKE permissions individually on tables.
>
> Revoke DROP ON MyTable from PUBLIC;
>
> I want to avoid doing it so I am wondering if I can define/grant the
> permission at database level so that nousers can directly use any commands
> like CREATE, UPDATE, ALTER or DROP. They have to use stored procedure. They
> can only use SELECT. Nothing else.
Only table owners can drop them.
You can deny permission to a whole schema, but not set permissions on
everything in it in one go. However there are various shell-scripts and
plpgsql functions that let you set permissions on groups of tables in
one go. They should show up easily enough through googling.
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd