Re: Creating a Read Only profile in 8.4

"Della-Croce, Gregory" <Greg_Della-Croce@wycliffe.org> writes:
> I am new at the Postgres DBA - Admin stuff.   So when asked to create a read only profile for our database in
Postgres8.4 I did the following: 
> *         create role RO_User password 'xxxxxxxxxxx' NOSUPERUSER NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE INHERIT LOGIN;

> *         select 'grant select on ' || tablename || ' to \"RO_User\"; 'from pg_tables where schemaname = 'public';

Uh, that only printed the GRANT commands you needed, it didn't execute
them.

            regards, tom lane