Re: How do I grant access to entire database at

Thanks, I'll use it.

But, if the developer's are listening -- this is really obtuse. MySQL
administration is much easier. Please consider simplifying the GRANT process
for future revs.

BTW, I prefer postgresql for all my own development.


on 7/18/04 4:41 PM, Oliver Elphick at olly@lfix.co.uk wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 20:52, Randall Perry wrote:
>> This is a pain. Couldn't we gave something simple like
>> GRANT ALL ON database.* TO JOE;
>> 
>> Which would grant full access to all objects in the database to JOE for all
>> time?
> 
> You can do it like this in psql:
> 
> \a
> \t
> \o /tmp/grant.sql
> SELECT      'GRANT ALL ON ' || n.nspname || '.' || c.relname ||
>           ' TO joe;'
> FROM      pg_catalog.pg_class AS c
>           LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace AS n
>                ON n.oid = c.relnamespace
> WHERE     c.relkind IN ('r','v','S') AND
>           n.nspname NOT IN ('pg_catalog', 'pg_toast') AND
>           pg_catalog.pg_table_is_visible(c.oid)
> ORDER BY  n.nspname, c.relname;
> \o
> \i /tmp/grant.sql
> 
> 
> The above could be put in a script and run from a Unix command prompt.
> 
> (The SQL used above is adaated from that used by psql's \d command.)

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