On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
* Markova, Nina (Nina.Markova@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca) wrote: > I need to check in a GUI if a user has certain privileges on the table he is trying to modify - insert/update/delete.
You probably want to use the "has_table_privilege" family of functions.
Look here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/functions-info.html > Something I could query system catalogs about: > Select ... from ... where table_name = 'MYTABLE'; > > Does Postgres store user privileges on tables in format similar to the one below, I mean the info below to be stored as a text field somewhere? > grant delete on MYTABLE to myuser > grant insert on MYTABLE to myuser
Privileges are stored in the catalog tables but not is a terribly useful format for querying, which is why the helper functions exist. If you want to look at it though, look at pg_class.relacl.
Another option for tables, is querying information_schema.table_privileges. There are other views for privileges:
