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PostgreSQL User and Role Management on Arch Linux

PostgreSQL User and Role Management on Arch Linux

Create roles

CREATE ROLE alice WITH LOGIN PASSWORD 'AlicePass!';
CREATE ROLE dbadmin WITH SUPERUSER LOGIN PASSWORD 'AdminPass!';
CREATE ROLE readonly;

Grant privileges

GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE appdb TO alice;
GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA public TO alice;
GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO readonly;
ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES IN SCHEMA public GRANT SELECT ON TABLES TO readonly;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE appdb TO alice;

Role membership

GRANT readonly TO alice;

List / change / drop

\du
ALTER ROLE alice WITH PASSWORD 'NewPass!';
REASSIGN OWNED BY alice TO postgres;
DROP OWNED BY alice;
DROP ROLE alice;

pg_hba.conf methods

Method Notes
trust No password – dev only
md5 MD5 hash
scram-sha-256 Recommended
peer Unix socket OS-user match
cert SSL client certificate