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Mastering PostgreSQL 9.6

You're reading from   Mastering PostgreSQL 9.6 A comprehensive guide for PostgreSQL 9.6 developers and administrators

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781783555352
Length 416 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hans-Jürgen Schönig Hans-Jürgen Schönig
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. PostgreSQL Overview FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Transactions and Locking 3. Making Use of Indexes 4. Handling Advanced SQL 5. Log Files and System Statistics 6. Optimizing Queries for Good Performance 7. Writing Stored Procedures 8. Managing PostgreSQL Security 9. Handling Backup and Recovery 10. Making Sense of Backups and Replication 11. Deciding on Useful Extensions 12. Troubleshooting PostgreSQL 13. Migrating to PostgreSQL

Inspecting permissions

When all permissions are set, it is sometimes necessary to know who has which permissions. It is vital for administrators to find out who is allowed to do what. Unfortunately, this process is not so easy and requires a bit of knowledge. Usually I am a big fan of command-line usage. However, in the case of the permission system, it can really make sense to use a graphical user interface to do things.

Before I show you how to read PostgreSQL permissions, I will assign rights to the joe role so that we can inspect them in the next step:

test=# GRANT ALL ON t_person TO joe; 
GRANT

Retrieving information about permissions can be done using the z command in psql:

test=# x 
Expanded display is on.
test=# z t_person
Access privileges
-[ RECORD 1 ]-----+------------------------------------------------------------
Schema | public
Name | t_person
Type | table
Access...
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