Re: What am I doing wrong in here?

Devrim GUNDUZ (Saturday 27 December 2003 10:45)
> > > ERROR:  permission denied for schema pg_catalog
> >
> > The user you create the user as needs to have createuser permission.
> > alter user "foo" with createuser;
> >
> > ...(run as an appropriate user) will grant the user such permission.
>
> Hmm, that solved the problem, thanks.
>
> But I still could not understand why the lack of createuser permission
> caused the error above...

Because database users (and lots of other database information) is stored in
the pg_catalog schema.  When you create, alter, or drop a user, you are
performing an insert, update, or delete on pg_catalog.pg_shadow.

I'm not familiar enough with the internals to say exactly how createuser=t in
the same table grants update permission to the user, but that is the effect.

Vertu sæll,

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