Hi there,
I'm a newbie to postgresql and I have some problems working with its
permissions.
For security purpose, I want that my application service account only
has execution permissions to the functions I created. so what I did
is:
Create a group testgroup (not super user)
Create a user testuser belongs to testgroup
Now I want to give function execute permission to testgroup:
first I grant the schema:
GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA "aaa" TO "testgroup";
second I grant the execution permission to the group:
GRANT EXECUTE ON FUNCTION "aaa"."testFunction"(integer) TO
"testgroup";
I thought that's it and logged in with testuser. But I found I
couldn't execute the function and gave me error like:
ERROR: permission denied for relation Tablename (the function select
from that Tablename)
Then I tried to give that testuser the select permission to that
Tablename, testuser can then execute that function.
so conclusion: it seems it's useless to give execution permission to a
group. The group will have to have all the base table select/insert/
delete etc permisisons in order to execute function depending on
what's in the function. Then I wonder why Postgresql is working like
that? There's no way for me to lock down all base table access. Or is
there something I miss?
Please help me if you have any idea about locking down base table
access and only give function execution access to a group.
Thanks a lot!