Re: Help me understanding the schema

Le samedi 5 décembre 2009 à 23:08:58, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) a écrit :
> Hi Scott,
>
> >> 7. we can set the privilege of user x for schema y
> >>   ie. database aaa contains schema a1, a2 and a3. user xx can query from
> >> schema a1 only, user yy can query from schema a2 only?
> >
> > No, perms on schemas control schema actions like create.  perms on
> > tables control user access.
>
> I thought that a user also had to have the USAGE right on a schema?  In an
>  application I'm working on at the moment, it threw the error "permission
>  denied on schema xxx" even if permissions on the tables within the schema
>  were OK - I had to assign the USAGE right on the schema.
>

You're right. One needs USAGE right to use the schema, and CREATE right to
create objects in this schema.


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