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Learning PostgreSQL 10

You're reading from   Learning PostgreSQL 10 A beginner's guide to building high-performance PostgreSQL database solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788392013
Length 488 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Andrey Volkov Andrey Volkov
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Salahaldin Juba Salahaldin Juba
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Relational Databases FREE CHAPTER 2. PostgreSQL in Action 3. PostgreSQL Basic Building Blocks 4. PostgreSQL Advanced Building Blocks 5. SQL Language 6. Advanced Query Writing 7. Server-Side Programming with PL/pgSQL 8. OLAP and Data Warehousing 9. Beyond Conventional Data Types 10. Transactions and Concurrency Control 11. PostgreSQL Security 12. The PostgreSQL Catalog 13. Optimizing Database Performance 14. Testing 15. Using PostgreSQL in Python Applications 16. Scalability

PostgreSQL security levels

PostgreSQL has different security levels defined on PostgreSQL objects, including tablespace, database, schema, table, foreign data wrapper, sequence, domain, language, and large object. One can have a peek into different privileges by running the \h meta command in psql, as follows:

Command: GRANT
Description: define access privileges
Syntax:
GRANT { { SELECT | INSERT | UPDATE | DELETE | TRUNCATE | REFERENCES | TRIGGER }
[, ...] | ALL [ PRIVILEGES ] }
ON { [ TABLE ] table_name [, ...]
| ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA schema_name [, ...] }
TO role_specification [, ...] [ WITH GRANT OPTION ]

Database security level

To disallow users from connecting to the database by default, one needs to revoke...

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