Hi
I hope this is the correct list to ask about a permissions problem I have.

I create a schema named cust, a table named clients, and a group named salesmen.
I use:
REVOKE ALL ON SCHEMA cust FROM PUBLIC;
GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA cust TO GROUP salesmen;


REVOKE ALL ON TABLE clients FROM PUBLIC;
GRANT SELECT ON TABLE clients TO GROUP salesmen;

then I do a :
\dp clients
and get:

Access privileges for database "custdb"
Schema | Table | Access privileges
---------+---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cust | clients | {admin=a*r*w*d*R*x*t*/cust,"group salesmen=r/cust"}



The problem is that when I check from within my application if a member of the group salesmen has permissions to INSERT into the group clients, I get an affirmative question.
I guessed it was a problem with my application, so I downloaded postgresql_autodoc (http://www.rbt.ca/autodoc/) in order to check the permissions better.
It also claims that group salesmen has the right to SELECT, INSERT and DELETE on table clients.
I tried :
revoke insert on clients from group salesmen;
and nothing changed
I tried :
revoke all on clients from group salesmen;
and every permission was revoked.
Then I tried again:
GRANT SELECT ON TABLE clients TO GROUP salesmen;
and all three permissions (insert, select, delete) are back in place.


All these happen with postgresql 7.4 on linux

Is there something I'm doing wrong, something I don't understand or have I hit a bug?

Thanks in advance
Michalis Kabrianis



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