Re: Limit the normal user to see system catalog or not??? And create privilege??? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: Limit the normal user to see system catalog or not??? And create privilege???
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In response to Limit the normal user to see system catalog or not??? And create privilege???  (leaf_yxj <leaf_yxj@163.com>)
Responses Re: Limit the normal user to see system catalog or not??? And create privilege???  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
List pgsql-general
On 03/28/2012 09:54 AM, leaf_yxj wrote:
> For oracle, the normal user can't see all the system catalog. but for
> postgresql, it looks like all the user can see the system catalog.  Should
> we limit the user read privilege to system catalog?
>
> In oracle, the system privilege has create table, create view,create
> function.  For postgresql database, how to control the user who only can
> create table but can't create view. Based on the test I did, once the user
> has the create privilege on the schema, the user will have any create
> privilege on that schema. In postgresql, Rule is used to control that ???
> very confused!

Path to unconfusion:):
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/sql-grant.html

You can grant CREATE on a schema and then restrict CREATE within the
schema for different objects types. In recent versions you are looking
for ALL * IN SCHEMA schema_name where * is the object type.

>
> Thanks.
> Regards.
>
> Grace
>
> --


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Adrian Klaver
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