On Wednesday 03 March 2010 07:29:21 am Merlin Moncure wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Thom Brown <thombrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As far as I'm aware. It's only in the upcoming version 9.0 that you > > can do things like: > > > > GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO readonly; > > > > Other folk on here may have some alternative suggestions though. > > 9.0 will also have the hot standby feature. setting up a standby is > pretty much always a good idea and access to the standby is > automatically read only. this would be a cheap way to get what you > want without dealing with privileges which is nice. you are also > relatively insulated from problematic queries the user might make like > accidental unconstrained joins, full table sorts etc.. > > merlin I believe all you have to do is this to create a read only user: create user ro_user with password 'passwd'; alter user ro_user set default_transaction_read_only = true; -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
