Account in postgresql database

On K, 2005-06-08 at 22:40 +0200, Yann Michel wrote:

Hi,

I was searching for some information about the storage of the user data
in postgresql. As far as I know there is one dictionary table for
storeing all the users of any known database, right?

As we'd like to provide a postgresql database service to our students
we'd like to create one database for each user. This user should be able
to create new accounts for other users but only for his/her database.

Any comments or solutions are welcome.

see if db_user_namespace (in postgresql.conf) can solve your problem

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Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>

Yann,

As we'd like to provide a postgresql database service to our students
we'd like to create one database for each user. This user should be able
to create new accounts for other users but only for his/her database.

That's on the TODO list. As far as I know, nobody is currently working on it.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

Hi Hannu,

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 01:03:42AM +0300, Hannu Krosing wrote:

I was searching for some information about the storage of the user data
in postgresql. As far as I know there is one dictionary table for
storeing all the users of any known database, right?

As we'd like to provide a postgresql database service to our students
we'd like to create one database for each user. This user should be able
to create new accounts for other users but only for his/her database.

Any comments or solutions are welcome.

see if db_user_namespace (in postgresql.conf) can solve your problem

Yes, that is quite the thing, I was looking for. But unfortunately there
is a note within the documentation: "Note: This feature is intended as a
temporary measure until a complete solution is found. At that time, this
option will be removed."

Another question is, how to grant the right of creating a databaseuser
to a certain database user for only one database.

Regards,
Yann