I am new to Postgres, but I am very experienced with Sybase, Oracle, and MySQL. I am trying to use some simple commands, but they do not seem to work.
First I wanted to give myself a password. I read in the online docs the command was this:
phis=> alter user larry set password = 'XXXX'; ERROR: unrecognized configuration parameter "password"
Then I read somewhere else it is:
phis=> ALTER USER larry WITH PASSWORD 'XXXX'; ALTER ROLE
But then it still let me log in without one.
Then I checked with pgAdmin and it showed I did not have any password. I set one there, but it still lets me login without one.
Then I went to do a select from a table, and I got permission denied. But the table is in a schema (the name is "public") that is set for "GRANT ALL TO ALL"
According to the docs this would be the command to grant access to all tables:
phis=> grant select on all tables in public to larry; ERROR: syntax error at or near "public"
But it doesn't like that. The I found this:
phis=> grant ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE phis to larry; WARNING: no privileges were granted for "phis"
From pgAdmin I was able to grant myself select access, but why don't the command line commands work?
