On Thu, February 21, 2013 16:02, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 02/21/2013 12:14 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: >> >> The current arrangement is not really satisfactory as it requires >> either separate template databases for each userid granted the >> DBCREATE role or the superuser role has to be granted in place of >> the DBCREATE role. >> >> > > That is sort of the point of the template system, different templates > for different situations. > Creating a new database from the system provided standard templates is not what I would consider a different situation requiring a specialized template for each and every user granted the DBCREATE role. Requiring that seems to me to be busywork and a complete waste of DBA resources. If all the elements contained in the standard templates had their ownerships changed to that of the owner of the new database then my problem would never have arisen. I do not understand why this is not the case. Is there a reason why this is so? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general