On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No user, no group, they're al roles. Roles are both / either. Ah now I understand. Thank you! > You grant them that: > > grant rolename to username; > > Then you only ever have to grant / revoke a role to change > permissions, no need to do a million grants all over the place on each > table. Just grant it once to the role, grant the role to the user, > viola, you're done. OK I now understand: postgres=# \l List of databases Name | Owner | Encoding | Collation | Ctype | Access privileges -----------+-----------+----------+-------------+-------------+----------------------- caldega | cmennens | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | tiburon | cmennens | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | ide | cmennens | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | orlando | jmadeline | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | postgres | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | software | mwilshaw | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | template0 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres + | | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres template1 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres + | | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres (8 rows) postgres=# ALTER DATABASE ide OWNER TO it; ALTER DATABASE postgres=# \l List of databases Name | Owner | Encoding | Collation | Ctype | Access privileges -----------+-----------+----------+-------------+-------------+----------------------- caldega | cmennens | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | tiburon | cmennens | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | ide | it | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | orlando | jmadeline | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | postgres | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | software | mwilshaw | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | template0 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres + | | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres template1 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres + | | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres Thanks for helping me out! -Carlos -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general