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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Privileges & roles
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:08:38 -0400
Message-ID: <14381.1217358518@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <489E0305-8EF8-43B5-81C0-D168A1D30C15@indiana.edu>
References: <489E0305-8EF8-43B5-81C0-D168A1D30C15@indiana.edu>

Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu> writes:
> How do you make a user that can only create temporary tables?

Well, you grant them TEMP privilege on the database, and you revoke
everything else.  I suspect the key bit you're missing is to revoke
public CREATE privilege on the "public" schema.

			regards, tom lane



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