On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Duane Winner wrote: > Hello, > > We have a database with data loaded and now I need to GRANT > SELECT,UPDATE,INSERT,DELETE to all tables in 4 different schemas for a > specific postgresql user account. > > I have two problems: > > 1) One of these schemas has 75 tables. Is there a way to do the GRANT > command with a wildcard to give the privileges to the user in one fell > swoop? > > I try: > > mydatabase=# grant select,update,insert,delete on schemaA.* to myuser; > > and I get: > ERROR: relation "schemaA.*" does not exist
There isn't a wildcard syntax for that currently, although you can fake it with a function that gets all the tables in schemaA and grants to each of them. There should be examples in the mailing list archives since this gets asked fairly frequently. > 2) The other three schemas only have several tables each, so I can just > run the GRANT command on each schema.table individually, however one > table has a name with a hyphen it, and this causes an error. > > I try: > > mydatabase=# grant select,update,insert,delete on schemaB.table-two > to myuser; I think that should be: schemaB."table-two" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
