On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Fran ... <bryan...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I am a new user with PostgreSQL, I came from MySQL and I am experiencing
> some issues with roles and privileges.
>
>
> I have created a DB,user and grant privilege on this DB to this user. How
> could I check what is the privileges/permissions for this user?
>
>
> Transcript:
>
>
> postgres=# create database test;
> CREATE DATABASE
> postgres=# create user test with password 'test';
> CREATE ROLE
> postgres=# grant all privileges on database test to test;
> GRANT
> postgres=# \l
>                                   List of databases
>    Name    |  Owner   | Encoding |   Collate   |    Ctype    |   Access
> privileges
> -----------+----------+----------+-------------+------------
> -+-----------------------
>  postgres  | postgres | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
>  template0 | postgres | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres
>          +
>            |          |          |             |             |
> postgres=CTc/postgres
>  template1 | postgres | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres
>          +
>            |          |          |             |             |
> postgres=CTc/postgres
>  test      | postgres | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
> =Tc/postgres         +
>            |          |          |             |             |
> postgres=CTc/postgres+
>            |          |          |             |             |
> test=CTc/postgres
>  test1     | test1    | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =Tc/test1
>          +
>            |          |          |             |             |
> test1=CTc/test1
> (5 rows)
>
> With "\l" command It's no clear.
>
>
> Finally, I don't find some command like "show grants for..." in MySQL.
>
>
> Regards.
>
> Bryan
>

You can use the following query to show what table <USERNAME>  can access.
Just replace <USERNAME> with the actual username you want.

SELECT *
  FROM information_schema.table_privileges
 WHERE grantee = '<USERNAME>'
ORDER BY table_schema,table_name, privilege_type;

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