I recently noticed that my default superuser "postgres" cannot create tables in new schemas I create, but can in some existing ones.
So as the postgres user I ran:
afleads=# create schema mytest;
CREATE SCHEMA
afleads=# create table mytest.test (col1 int);
ERROR: permission denied for schema mytest
LINE 1: create table mytest.test (col1 int);
So I tried to give usage & connect permission to another superuser I have, but I get the same error:
afleads=# GRANT USAGE, CREATE ON SCHEMA mytest TO dhughes;
GRANT
afleads=# set role dhughes;
SET
afleads=# create table mytest.test (col1 int);
ERROR: permission denied for schema mytest
LINE 1: create table mytest.test (col1 int);
So then I gave the same usage & create permission to a non-superuser. It's a group role we have:
afleads=# GRANT USAGE, CREATE ON SCHEMA mytest TO creator_role;
GRANT
afleads=# set role creator_role;
SET
afleads=> create table mytest.test (col1 int);
CREATE TABLE
And then it works. This has me baffled as to why the two superusers I have do not have the permissions to create a table, when non-superusers can (once granted permissions).
However I still seem to be able to create tables in older schemas I have:
afleads=# select current_role;
current_role
--------------
postgres
(1 row)
afleads=# create table timeline.test (col1 int);
CREATE TABLE
Has anyone ran across something like this before?