Re: testing simple SELECT commands on newly-created databases. Apparently blocked by (lack of) privileges?

Lou,

> *[Comments]:* Is this consistent behavior?  Is it necessary to
> explicitly grant privileges to each object in a database?

This is correct, and how it's been for PostgreSQL since at least 7.2.

> We are aware of the new ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command, but, per docs,
> it only affects  tables (including views), sequences, and functions,
> correct?
> IE, it cannot affect database privileges.

That's correct.  However, it's only necessary to set database priveleges
once.

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