Re: Checking Permissions with SQL

On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 00:17, Joseph wrote:
> How would I be able to check whether I have select,update,insert,etc
> permissions on a given table with an sql statement?
>
> I am working on a generic php interface that lists all or some tables
> and lets you edit them.
>
> I want to get away from the permisssion denied error that php gives me.

You have to GRANT whatever permissions are needed to the user the web
server run as. vis:-

grant select on school to nobody;
grant select on school_number_seq to nobody;

This enable the web server, which runs as 'nobody' to select and read from
the database.

school=# select relacl from pg_class where relname = 'school';
            relacl
-------------------------------
 {"=","chris=arwR","nobody=r"}
(1 row)


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