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To: Hilary Forbes <hforbes@dmr.co.uk>
cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Help with privilages please 
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Comments: In-reply-to Hilary Forbes <hforbes@dmr.co.uk>
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:08:58 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Hilary Forbes <hforbes@dmr.co.uk> writes:
> I have an existing table suppliers and I have created a new user
> 'hilary'<br><br>
> REVOKE ALL on TABLE suppliers FROM hilary;<br><br>
> now login as hilary<br>
> SELECT * from suppliers;<br>
> and I get all the records!!!<br><br>

Most likely there's been a grant of (at least) select privilege to PUBLIC.
You'll need to revoke that if you don't want every user to have that
privilege implicitly.

			regards, tom lane