Re: ERROR: permission denied for database control - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Huang, Suya
Subject Re: ERROR: permission denied for database control
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Msg-id D83E55F5F4D99B4A9B4C4E259E6227CD0148C353@AUX1EXC01.apac.experian.local
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In response to Re: ERROR: permission denied for database control  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Thank you Tom and Albe. After grant connect database privilege to user test, the query runs without problem.

Thanks,
Suya

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 12:13 AM
To: Albe Laurenz
Cc: Huang, Suya; 'pgsql-general General'
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: permission denied for database control

Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at> writes:
> Suya Huang wrote:
>> --fails if try to get all db size in one sql postgres=> SELECT
>> current_date,pg_database_size(pg_database.datname) from pg_database;
>> ERROR:  permission denied for database control

> It seems like you have a database called "control" for which user "test"
> has no connect privilege.

Yeah, this failure is unsurprising.  But it looks like we forgot to document the restriction :-(.  I see a mention of
itin the 8.3 release notes, but there's nothing in the documentation of the functions themselves.  Will fix. 

            regards, tom lane


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