Thread: "Permission denied" on view

I'm having a strange problem that, though I found an appropriate thread in the 
mailing list archive, archives.postgresql.org seems to be down so I cannot 
see what the resolution was.

I have a database "scamp", with my own administrator user and a user "dialup".  
Inside the "scamp" database I've created the "dialup" schema, where a few 
tables reside.  I've created a view called "Dialup.UserGroups" as the 
administrator user, and then granted select access to the dialup user on all 
the tables that view uses (which are all in the public schema).

When I log into the database with the user dialup, if I perform the raw SQL 
statement it returns all the expected results, but I get the following when I 
try to select from the view:

scamp=> select * from Dialup.UserGroup;
ERROR:  dialup: permission denied

I have tried to create a similar, but differently named, view in the public 
schema to no avail.

Essentially, I want to have the dialup user have access to the tables it 
needs, but except for one table, they should all be read-only.  As such, I 
haven't set the ownership for the "dialup" schema to be owned by the "dialup" 
user.  Could this perhaps be causing some problems?

Any help on the matter would be appreciated (or getting the mailing list 
archives website up and running again ;)

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Michael A Nachbaur <mike@nachbaur.com> writes:
> scamp=> select * from Dialup.UserGroup;
> ERROR:  dialup: permission denied

You haven't granted USAGE permission on the "dialup" schema to this
user.  You need that in addition to select permission on the view itself.
        regards, tom lane

On Tuesday 25 November 2003 09:09 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael A Nachbaur <mike@nachbaur.com> writes:
> > scamp=> select * from Dialup.UserGroup;
> > ERROR:  dialup: permission denied
>
> You haven't granted USAGE permission on the "dialup" schema to this
> user.  You need that in addition to select permission on the view itself.

Thank you; apparently I didn't RTFM closely enough.

/me goes sheepishly back to work

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