Re: Resetting priveleges on a table

Bryan White <bryan@arcamax.com>

From: Bryan White <bryan@arcamax.com>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-03-14T18:05:31Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Tom Lane wrote:
> You need to revoke them as that user, likely.  REVOKE really means
> "revoke grants I made", not "revoke any grant anybody made".

Ok I tried logging is as that user.  Oddly after the revoke then only 
grant that disappeared was one I created.

Maybe it has something to do with 'grant option' permissions which seem 
to have been created here.

Transscript: (pconner is the obsolet user, bryan is my account)

ec=# \z bulkuploadcfg
                             Access privileges for database "ec"
  Schema |     Table     |                        Access privileges
--------+---------------+------------------------------------------------------------------
  public | bulkuploadcfg | 
{pconner=a*r*w*d*R*x*t*/pconner,=arwdRxt/pconner,=arwdRxt/bryan}
(1 row)

ec=# select current_user;
  current_user
--------------
  pconner
(1 row)

ec=# revoke all on bulkuploadcfg from public;
REVOKE
ec=# \z bulkuploadcfg
                     Access privileges for database "ec"
  Schema |     Table     |                 Access privileges
--------+---------------+---------------------------------------------------
  public | bulkuploadcfg | {pconner=a*r*w*d*R*x*t*/pconner,=arwdRxt/pconner}
(1 row)

ec=# revoke all on bulkuploadcfg from pconner;
REVOKE
ec=# \z bulkuploadcfg
                     Access privileges for database "ec"
  Schema |     Table     |                 Access privileges
--------+---------------+---------------------------------------------------
  public | bulkuploadcfg | {pconner=a*r*w*d*R*x*t*/pconner,=arwdRxt/pconner}
(1 row)

ec=# revoke grant option for all on bulkuploadcfg from pconner;
REVOKE
ec=# \z bulkuploadcfg
                     Access privileges for database "ec"
  Schema |     Table     |                 Access privileges
--------+---------------+---------------------------------------------------
  public | bulkuploadcfg | {pconner=a*r*w*d*R*x*t*/pconner,=arwdRxt/pconner}
(1 row)

-- 
Bryan