From: Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@ringways.co.uk>
Organization: Ringways Garages Ltd
To: Ray Stell <stellr@vt.edu>
Subject: Re: create role?
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:12:24 +0000
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On Thursday 20 December 2012 18:30:24 Ray Stell wrote:
> I'm not really that lazy, I was just stuck in the oracle world view (grant
> priv to user).  Your search strings don't fit in that logic.   It looks
> like sys privs are never provided by grant, rather create or alter.  Hmm,
> sans CONNECT, which seems rather system priv to me.  MIght make for a handy
> additional comment to
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/sql-grant.html  'For system
> privileges see "ALTER ROLE."'

Think of a role as permissions to do tasks whereas grant gives you access to 
objects.

You are granted permission to a table/view etc.
Your role is to create other users, or create databases

I don't know any database system other than Postgresql so I don't know how it 
compares to Oracle

-- 
Gary Stainburn
Group I.T. Manager
Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk 


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