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To: richard coleman <[email protected]>
Cc: Pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: database specific pg_read_all_data / pg_write_all_data
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:10:03 +0100
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On Wed, 2025-12-10 at 08:06 -0500, richard coleman wrote:
> Multiple clusters would be nice, but we don't have the available servers to accomodate that.
You can run many clusters on a single server...
> Without the pg_read_all_data role there is apparently no other way in PostgreSQL to
> automatically assign these privs to each and every table/view that exists or will be
> created without using the nuclear option and granting super user privs.
> Unless there is something else that I am missing which could be used when creating your
> suggested "readonly_dbname" role.
Yes, and that is ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES.
> It's a shame that PostgreSQL has created some extremely useful built in roles, but then
> limits them such that they can only be utilized for vanishingly few actual use cases.
>
> Hopefully the PostgreSQL devs revisit these built in roles with a thought toward making
> database specific ones assignable with a mechanism like:
>
> grant pg_read_all_data on database foo to user_role;
Frankly, I think that "pg_read_all_data" is ugly and should never have been added.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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