> On 26/04/2023 18:34 CEST richard coleman <rcoleman.ascentgl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This might sound like a silly question, but how would I list the privileges
> the various roles have on the database objects themselves?
>
> There appear to be a million ways to list the privileges on various database
> objects; tables, views, foreign tables, etc. but for the life of me there
> doesn't appear to an analogous way to get permissions on the database objects
> themselves.
>
> At the moment all that I've found is:
>
> select has_database_privilege('role','db_name', 'CREATE') as can_create;
> select has_database_privilege('role','db_name', 'CONNECT') as can_connect;
> select has_database_privilege('role','db_name', 'TEMP') as can_temp;
>
> Am I missing something?
If you're interested in specific roles or privileges, then aclexplode is your
friend.
SELECT
datname,
grantor::regrole,
grantee::regrole,
privilege_type,
is_grantable
FROM
pg_database,
aclexplode(datacl)
WHERE
grantee = 'role'::regrole
AND privilege_type IN ('CREATE', 'CONNECT', 'TEMPORARY');
--
Erik
