Re: Discovering privileges

On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 03:50:30PM +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:

> I'm using the pg_user and pg_group system tables to discover the list of
> users, and the groups to which they belong.
> 
> But how can I discover the privileges that these users and groups have
> for the various tables. Is this also in one of the system tables?

You could look at pg_class.relacl, but the "Access Privilege Inquiry
Functions" (has_table_privilege(), etc.) might be easier to use.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-info.html#FUNCTIONS-INFO-ACCESS-TABLE

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Michael Fuhr
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