We have one database with several schemas. We have several groups of developers that have the need to be able to collaborate including creating and dropping tables.
I noticed it became difficult to manage because when one developer creates a table, he is now the owner. All the other developers need to be given permissions to select from (or drop) those tables he created. I was looking for a way to where all members of a group can select from everybody’s tables, drop them if needed, etc. Where they can all work collaboratively.
I found this site that had a suggestion:
https://blog.hagander.net/setting-owner-at-create-table-237/
You basically create a “common_role” as the table owner and grant all the users access to tables owned by common_role. However, for this to work automatically, you need to create an event trigger so that each time a developer creates a table, it alters the table owner after the table is created.
I was wonder how other DBA’s handle this permission issue for collaborative environments? Any best practices or advise?
