I have been thinking about this problem for quite a while.
Proper administration require creation of groups.
Adding a new user to a database is as simple as adding the user to the group that has the required privileges to the database.
But, I think one new command would be very usefull.
CREATE GROUP <group> FROM USER <user>
where the privileges would be derived from the user's.
What do you think syntax gurus?
Randall Perry wrote:
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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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