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Granting Select To All Tables Of A Database

12.03.2008
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        Generates an SQL script to grant Select permission to role foobar to all user tables of a database


SELECT 'GRANT SELECT ON ' || c.relname || ' TO foobar;' 
FROM pg_class AS c LEFT OUTER JOIN pg_namespace n ON n.oid = c.relnamespace 
WHERE c.relkind = 'r' AND n.nspname NOT IN('pg_catalog', 'pg_toast') AND pg_table_is_visible(c.oid);
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