Re: Why can't the database owner create schemas and how can I enable that?

[Melvin Davidson <melvin6925@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 2:33 AM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 9/22/2017 10:29 PM, Tim Uckun wrote:

I am setting up a database for an app. So I create a user without superuser but with login priveleges

I then create a database and set it's owner to that user like this...

dropdb --if-exists api_development
dropuser --if-exists api_user

createuser api_user -P -d
createdb api_development -O api_user

The app can now connect to the database but it can't create any tables, schemas or anything else unless I give it superuser privileges.

Is there any way I can make this user a superuser for this database without making it a superuser on other databases?

that should have worked just fine.


[root@new ~]# useradd fred
[root@new ~]# su - postgres
$ createuser fred
$ createdb fred -O fred
$ logout
[root@new ~]# su - fred
[fred@new ~]$ psql
psql (9.3.19)
Type "help" for help.

fred=> create schema xyzzy;
CREATE SCHEMA
fred=> create table xyzzy.abc (id serial, dat text);
CREATE TABLE
fred=> \q

.....




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Make sure you are the DB owner when you connect.

Either

psql -U api_user  -d api_development

OR

psql -d api_development

SET ROLE api_user;

SELECT current_user;

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