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From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: prevent users from SELECT-ing from pg_roles/pg_database
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Msg-id bd7905e2e1a920fb5ed3b8fa9ab0d7c8e8f2b52d.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Re: prevent users from SELECT-ing from pg_roles/pg_database  (Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas@visena.com>)
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On Mon, 2024-05-27 at 09:33 +0200, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
> I tried:
>
>   REVOKE SELECT ON pg_catalog.pg_database FROM public;
>
> But that doesn't prevent a normal user from querying pg_database it seems…

It works here.

Perhaps the "normal" user is a member of "pg_read_all_data".

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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