Re: Read only user permission - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Erik Wienhold
Subject Re: Read only user permission
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Msg-id 924297640.391660.1692869672732@office.mailbox.org
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In response to Re: Read only user permission  (Dominique Devienne <ddevienne@gmail.com>)
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> On 24/08/2023 10:11 CEST Dominique Devienne <ddevienne@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 7:46 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >
> > The readwrite user (not the admin) would need to issue ALTER DEFAULT
> > PRIVILEGES granting that.
>
> Hi. I'm confused Tom. Why should it matter who created the new tables?
>
> I'm also using DEFAULT PRIVILEGES, for the very reason they dynamically
> extend to newly created objects in the schema.
> And I don't remember reading anything like what you imply. Could you please
> pinpoint in the doc where this would be explained?
>
> DEFAULT PRIVILEGES only apply to DDLs made by the role who did the GRANT'ing?
>
> In my case, the schema owner does both the granting and DDLs, so I guess I'll
> be OK.
> I just want to make sure I understand the situation better. Thanks, --DD

This is implied by:

    "You can change default privileges only for objects that will be
     created by yourself or by roles that you are a member of."

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-alterdefaultprivileges.html#SQL-ALTERDEFAULTPRIVILEGES-DESCRIPTION

--
Erik



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