On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 14:59:58 -0800,
Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Andrzej Kwiatkowski wrote:
>
> > I've read that in postgres v 7.3 and above is possible to set
> > permissions for creating tables in given database...
> >
> > I've tried in many various ways, byt always given user can create
> > tables in database.
>
> If you remove the create permission from all of the schemas for the user
> they shouldn't be able to create non-temporary tables. On my empty 7.4
> devel database, after doing
>
> REVOKE CREATE on SCHEMA public FROM public;
>
> a random non-superuser account on the database no longer can create tables
> (apart from temporary ones).
You also probably want to revoke create on the database so that the person
cannot create schemas in which they could create tables.