On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Anj Adu<fotographs@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a bunch of tables which have child table that are partitions (several
> of them). Is there a way I can create a user with SELECT permissions on the
> parent without having to individually give the same permission on all child
> tables ? Every time I create new partitions..I have to explicitly grant
> permissions on the child tables. I use postgres 8.1.9. Is there a plan to
> fix this in a future release.
I believe that strictly speaking, it's not considered broken. Would
be nice to have a keyword when using inherits that would inherit the
perms as well though. So, "inherits (parent) with perms" or something
like that. Just a thought.