Robert,
> I need to give a user a single database that they will have full control
> over. I am assuming this means giving them ownership of the database,
> but I have no idea how to do that, even after looking through the manual
> and the mailing list archive. How do I give a user ownership of a
> database? Or if there's a better way of granting them full access
> (creating and editing tables, etc.) what is it, and how do I do it?
CREATE USER joe WITH PASSWORD 'jehosaphat' CREATEDB;
\c - joe
CREATE DATABASE joes_db;
\c - postgres
ALTER USER joe WITH NOCREATEDB;
then edit pg_hba.conf to have a line where joe can only connect to joes_db.
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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco