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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it…

  1. We can create a database for a specific user with some ease. From the command line, as a superuser, these actions would be as follows:
postgres=# create user fred;CREATE ROLEpostgres=# create database fred owner fred;CREATE DATABASE
  1. As the database owners, users have login privileges, so they can connect to any database by default. There is a command named ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES, however, this does not currently apply to databases, tablespaces, or languages. The ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command also currently applies only to roles (that is, users) that already exist.

So, we need to revoke the privilege to connect to our new database from everybody except the designated user. There isn't a REVOKE ... FROM PUBLIC EXCEPT ...

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