Marc Fromm <Marc.Fromm@wwu.edu> wrote:
> I am working with a script to automate grant select to all tables
> in a database to a user.
You don't say what version you're using, but if it's available, you
might want to use the GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA syntax.
> The data base cswe2 does not contain the table sql_languages,
> unless it is hidden. Is there a way to tell the script to ignore
> them?
> GRANT SELECT ON TABLE sql_languages to tom;
> ERROR: relation "sql_languages" does not exist
It looks like you're not dealing with schema properly. To learn how
to write queries for that, it can help to run psql with the -E
switch and use the \d commands.
-Kevin
