Re: [GENERAL] Revoking CREATE TABLE

2010-03-24 Thread Tony Webb
Hi Tom, Thanks for your help and the hint (off-line) to use the \dn+ command. You've hit the nail on the head sir! \dn+ WARNING: nonstandard use of \\ in a string literal at character 281 HINT: Use the escape string syntax for backslashes, e.g., E'\\'.

Re: [GENERAL] Revoking CREATE TABLE

2010-03-24 Thread Tony Webb
Thanks Tom, I think I'm still doing something wrong. As a superuser I run: #revoke create on schema public from public; REVOKE As the read only user straight after running the above: create table barney2(col1 integer); CREATE TABLE \d barney2 Table "public.barney2" Column | Type | Modif

[GENERAL] Revoking CREATE TABLE

2010-03-24 Thread Tony Webb
Hi, I would like a setup with the following: Three users - one, called OWNER, that owns the tables and can drop, alter and change data in the tables; another called USER that can edit data in the tables created by the owner but cannot create new tables or drop any tables and a third user called

[GENERAL] Big Delete Consistently Causes a Crash

2009-07-01 Thread Tony Webb
Hi all, I have a 8.3 cluster running under VM. It seems fine for most activities (a bit slow but error free) but if the developer issues a delete statement it consistently kills the database. If the database is running in archive mode then it kills the archiver, else it kills the client sess