Re: How to grant a privilege on all tables or views or both of a database to someone?

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:55:51AM -0800, Paul Ogden wrote:
> How to grant a privilege on all tables or views or both of a database to
> someone?Here's what I did, using psql:

Personally I solved this using plpgsql:

-- usage: SELECT grant_all('privilidge', 'user');
-- grants privilidge (SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE or ALL) to the user
-- for all non-pg_ objects in the database (except indices).

DROP FUNCTION grant_all(text, text);
CREATE FUNCTION grant_all(text, text) RETURNS boolean AS '
DECLARE item RECORD; priv ALIAS FOR $1; user ALIAS FOR $2;
BEGIN  FOR item IN SELECT * FROM pg_class    WHERE relname !~ ''^pg_''    AND relkind <> ''i'' LOOP   EXECUTE ''GRANT
''|| priv      || '' ON '' || quote_ident(item.relname)     || '' TO '' || quote_ident(user); END LOOP; RETURN ''t''; 
END;' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

DROP FUNCTION grant_all_tables(text, text);
CREATE FUNCTION grant_all_tables(text, text) RETURNS boolean AS '
DECLARE item RECORD; priv ALIAS FOR $1; user ALIAS FOR $2;
BEGIN FOR item IN SELECT * FROM pg_class    WHERE relname !~ ''^pg_''   AND relkind = ''r'' LOOP   EXECUTE ''GRANT ''
||priv     || '' ON '' || quote_ident(item.relname)     || '' TO '' || quote_ident(user); END LOOP; RETURN ''t''; 
END;' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

DROP FUNCTION grant_all_tables_and_views(text, text);
CREATE FUNCTION grant_all_tables_and_views(text, text) RETURNS boolean AS '
DECLARE item RECORD; priv ALIAS FOR $1; user ALIAS FOR $2;
BEGIN FOR item IN SELECT * FROM pg_class   WHERE relname !~ ''^pg_''   AND relkind  IN (''r'', ''v'') LOOP   EXECUTE
''GRANT'' || priv     || '' ON '' || quote_ident(item.relname)     || '' TO '' || quote_ident(user); END LOOP; RETURN
''t'';
END;' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

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