Thank you, Scott, for your reply. > Two problems. 1: you don't grant select on schemas, you grant it on > tables. 2: case folding. If you're gonna use a name "schema_Z" then > you have to quote it, because it's mixed case, not all lower.
> You need to grant it for each table. In actual command issued, there is no case mixing. I wanted to emphasize the argument was a schema name, not a table name. But this means as new tables get created in the schema, a set of new commands must be issued? > Note that instead of granting it to a user, you should grant it > to a role, then give membership to that role to the user. That sounds like a good idea. Would you mind showing an exmple? Regards, Tena Sakai tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu -----Original Message----- From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott.marl...@gmail.com] Sent: Sat 2/28/2009 12:04 PM To: Tena Sakai Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] grant question On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Tena Sakai <tsa...@gallo.ucsf.edu> wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > I want to issue a command: > > grant select on schema_Z to user_a; > > so that the user_a can look at all tables in schema_Z. > Sadly, what I get is: > ERROR: relation "schema_Z" does not exist Two problems. 1: you don't grant select on schemas, you grant it on tables. 2: case folding. If you're gonna use a name "schema_Z" then you have to quote it, because it's mixed case, not all lower. > I tried: > > grant select on schema_Z.* to user_a; Sorry no wildcarding on grant (At least not yet). You need to grant it for each table. Note that instead of granting it to a user, you should grant it to a role, then give membership to that role to the user.
