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Re: prevent users from SELECT-ing from pg_roles/pg_database

Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>

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From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreas@visena.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2024-05-27T09:10:10Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
On Mon, 2024-05-27 at 09:33 +0200, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
> I tried:
>
>   REVOKE SELECT ON pg_catalog.pg_database FROM public;
>
> But that doesn't prevent a normal user from querying pg_database it seems…

It works here.

Perhaps the "normal" user is a member of "pg_read_all_data".

Yours,
Laurenz Albe