Re: gathering ownership and grant permissions

[chris <chrisk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the quick response.

That does not work for what I need because I only need the owner and permissions of one table, I need the grant to look like the output that pg_dump displays.

ex:

GRANT ALL ON TABLE testing_cdc TO bob;


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-- PostgreSQL database dump complete
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I need a way which my script can isolate the owner's name and set it to a variable on its own. Same with grant.

Thanks

On 02/16/2018 01:05 PM, Melvin Davidson wrote:

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 2:47 PM, chris <chrisk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

HI,

I would like to know if there is a better way to grab the grant permissions  as well as the "owner to" of a table.

I can currently do this through a pg_dumb with greps for "^grant" and "^alter" but than I need to do a word search of those lines looking for the specific answers which gets much more involved.

I essentially need to know what grant command was ran and use that grant permission to set to a variable for a script.

Ex: GRANT ALL ON TABLE testing TO bob; then set only the "all" to a variable.

And then same for the ALTER .... OWNER TO bob.

This is on postgresl 9.6.

Thank you,

Chris

>... is a better way to grab the grant permissions  as well as the "owner to" of a table.

Chris, see if the query below will help. Note, you need to execute as a superuser.

SELECT n.nspname,
               c.relname,
               o.rolname AS owner,
               array_to_string(ARRAY[c.relacl], '|') as permits
  FROM pg_class c
    JOIN pg_namespace n ON (n.oid = c.relnamespace)
    JOIN pg_authid o ON (o.oid = c.relowner)
WHERE n.nspname not like 'pg_%'
     AND n.nspname not like 'inform_%'
     AND relkind = 'r'
ORDER BY 1;

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