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PostgreSQL 13 Cookbook

You're reading from  PostgreSQL 13 Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838648138
Pages 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Vallarapu Naga Avinash Kumar Vallarapu Naga Avinash Kumar
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters close

Preface 1. Cluster Management Fundamentals 2. Cluster Management Techniques 3. Backup and Recovery 4. Advanced Replication Techniques 5. High Availability and Automatic Failover 6. Connection Pooling and Load Balancing 7. Securing through Authentication 8. Logging and Analyzing PostgreSQL Servers 9. Critical Services Monitoring 10. Extensions and Performance Tuning 11. Upgrades and Patches 12. About Packt 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Performing authorization using roles and privileges

It is quite common to see a user being given more than the required privileges in a database. Sometimes, the default postgres user is used as an application user and a backup user. This can be dangerous as the superuser has the highest level of privileges. A user with a superuser role can drop a database along with its data. At the same time, it may be difficult to grant privileges on each database object to every user. For this purpose, we could use the concept of roles and privileges. In this recipe, we shall discuss how roles and privileges can be used to perform a better authorization mechanism in PostgreSQL.

Getting ready

Before attempting to segregate privileges using roles and privileges, it is important to distinguish the access control you wish to implement in your database. For example, if the database is serving two application modules that connect to different schemas or tables, it is better to have two or multiple roles...

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