Hey folks, I'm playing around with putting some of my email system's config into PostgreSQL, and I ran into some behavior I didn't expect today. I'm sure this is just misunderstanding on my part, but reading the documentation hasn't cleared it up for me yet. This is PostgreSQL 8.4.2 on OpenBSD, FYI. I created a user for the Postfix system to connect to the database: CREATE USER postfix WITH PASSWORD 'xxxxxxxx'; I then create a database for this configuration stuff: CREATE DATABASE email WITH OWNER benny; I added the postfix user to pg_hba.conf and reloaded PostgreSQL: host email postfix 127.0.0.1/32 password local email postfix password I can now log in as the database owner, and create a table: [benny@fusion]$ psql email email=> CREATE TABLE foo() ; CREATE TABLE email=> \d List of relations Schema | Name | Type | Owner --------+------+-------+------- public | foo | table | benny (1 row) email=> I can also log in as the postfix user, due to the settings I gave the user in pg_hba.conf: [benny@fusion ~]$ psql -U postfix email Password for user postfix: psql (8.4.2) Type "help" for help. email=> \d List of relations Schema | Name | Type | Owner --------+------+-------+------- public | foo | table | benny (1 row) email=> Here's the part I didn't expect: email=> CREATE TABLE foo2() ; CREATE TABLE email=> \d List of relations Schema | Name | Type | Owner --------+------+-------+--------- public | foo | table | benny public | foo2 | table | postfix (2 rows) email=> Um... What did I miss? Why would the default permissions given to a new user and a new database allow this new user to create tables? Or am I being an idiot here? Thanks! Benny -- "Show me on the doll where the marketing touched you." -- "Mally" on Fazed.net -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general