Jukka,

I would probably completely remove that paragraph, or at least remove the wrong hint on how to check if permissions are correct. Correct permission settings of a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database is probably out of scope of the driver documentation. But your suggestion for an alternate method sounds OK too.

spatial_ref_sys and geometry_columns table/views are always removed from the listing due https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/e7f14b7ff025bea54b9fd2363cda5eeae6d5ade6/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/pg/ogrpgdatasource.cpp#L1357 . The weird thing is that looking in the history that filtering was already done before the FAQ entry was written, so I'm not sure to remember what I had in mind 16 years ago when I wrote it :-)

Even

Le 20/02/2024 à 15:37, Rahkonen Jukka via gdal-dev a écrit :

Hi,

I don’t undestand this part of the PosgGIS driver documentation https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/pg.html#faqs

“Permission issues on geometry_columns and/or spatial_ref_sys tables can be generally confirmed if you can see the tables by setting the configuration option PG_LIST_ALL_TABLES to YES. (e.g. ogrinfo - -config PG_LIST_ALL_TABLES YES PG:xxxxx)”

For the first, was the meaning to say the opposite, that there are permission issues if you cannot see the tables? And for the second, with current GDAL and PostGIS versions user does not see geometry_columns and spatial_ref_sys on the ogrinfo layer list even with this config option. It seems that they are filtered away from the result. I do see that the config option has an effect and for example raster_columns and raster_overviews are added to the layer list.

An easy way to check the permissions is to query those views/tables directly.
ogrinfo PG:xxxxx spatial_ref_sys

ogrinfo PG:xxxxx geometry_columns

If ogrinfo lists something else than an error, then permissions are OK. Is this method good enough so I could edit the documentation?

-Jukka Rahkonen-


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