Re: User postgres unable to revoke privileges?

Le 2013-06-06 à 17:59, Tom Lane a écrit :

> =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Beausoleil?= <francois@teksol.info> writes:
>> regress=# ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES FOR ROLE dataanalysts IN SCHEMA public REVOKE SELECT ON TABLES FROM dataanalysts;
>> ERROR:  permission denied for schema public
>
>> I'm logged in as postgres, the database superuser. Why am I getting a permission denied?
>
> I suspect you already revoked public CREATE privilege in schema public.

Ha, yes, you are right.

> Note where the fine manual says:
>
> schema_name
>     The name of an existing schema. Each target_role must have CREATE privileges for each specified schema.
>
> There was some debate previously about whether that restriction was a
> good idea at all; and given this example, it seems like we definitely
> shouldn't require it during a REVOKE.

I may not have read that section carefully enough. I'll try again, by adding postgres back with create privileges on
thepublic schema. 

Thanks!
François