Re: [HACKERS] Table permissions problem

> On Friday I asked.
>
> > Has something changed recently?  I created a new database and it won't
> > let me insert unless I specifically grant myself privledges.  It
> > shows as being owned by me.  Also, I can't create a view.  It says
> > "pg_rewrite: Permission denied." and doesn't create the view.
>
> I have since found out that it was changed so that no one, not even the
> owner, had full privs on the tables.  I went in and changed my code
> to grant ALL on each database to the db owner.  Everything is fine
> except that I still can't create a view.  I still  get that "pg_rewrite:
> Permission denied." error.  Any ideas?
>

Only superuser.  From TODO:

    CREATE VIEW requires super-user priviledge

This is because someone who can modify pg_rewrite can create their own
view to modify any table.


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