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Create Db/User/Schema: Create Database PSQL / Createdb Utility

This document discusses how to create and manage databases, users, schemas, and privileges in PostgreSQL. Key steps include: 1. Creating databases using the createdb utility or CREATE DATABASE statement in psql. 2. Dropping databases using the dropdb utility or DROP DATABASE statement after ensuring the database is not currently open. 3. Creating and managing users with the createuser utility, including assigning privileges and dropping users. 4. Creating and dropping schemas, and setting the search path to determine where objects are located.

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Create Db/User/Schema: Create Database PSQL / Createdb Utility

This document discusses how to create and manage databases, users, schemas, and privileges in PostgreSQL. Key steps include: 1. Creating databases using the createdb utility or CREATE DATABASE statement in psql. 2. Dropping databases using the dropdb utility or DROP DATABASE statement after ensuring the database is not currently open. 3. Creating and managing users with the createuser utility, including assigning privileges and dropping users. 4. Creating and dropping schemas, and setting the search path to determine where objects are located.

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Create Db/User/Schema

Create database Psql / createdb utility:

• Syntax from psql: Create database databasename owner ownername;

• Syntax from command line: Createdb <dbname>.


• Syntax for help: createdb --help

Drop database – Psql/ dropdb utility:

• We can’t drop the database which we are connected.


• Example:
scott=# drop database scott;
ERROR: cannot drop the currently open database
• Syntax from psql: Drop database <dbname>.
• Syntax from command line: dropdb <dbname>.
• Syntax for dropdb help: dropdb –help

Create user – Psql/ createuser utility/


Interactive:

• Syntax from psql: create user scott login superuser password


'welcome';
• Syntax from command line: createuser <username>
• Syntax for interactive user creation from command line:
• Example:
• createuser --interactive joe
Shall the new role be a superuser? (y/n) n
Shall the new role be allowed to create databases? (y/n) y
Shall the new role be allowed to create more new roles? (y/n) y
• Syntax for createuser help: createuser --help

Drop user - Psql/ dropuser utility:

• Syntax from psql: drop user <username>


• Syntax from command line: dropuser <username>
• Dropping a user with objects or privileges will return an error.
Example:
postgres=# drop user test1;
ERROR: role "test1" cannot be dropped because some objects
depend on it
• Assign the user privileges to another user before dropping the
user.
Example:
REASSIGN OWNED BY user to postgres;
Drop role username;

Grant:
• Grant CONNECT to the database:
GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE database_name TO username;
• Grant USAGE on schema:
GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA schema_name TO username;
• Grant on all tables for DML statements: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE,
DELETE
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA
schema_name TO username;
• Grant all privileges on all tables in the schema:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA schema_name TO
username;
• Grant all privileges on all sequences in the schema:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ALL SEQUENCES IN SCHEMA schema_name
TO username;
• Grant permission to create database:
ALTER USER username CREATEDB;
• Make a user superuser:
ALTER USER myuser WITH SUPERUSER;
• Remove superuser status:
ALTER USER username WITH NOSUPERUSER;
• Column Level access:
GRANT SELECT (col1), UPDATE (col1) ON mytable TO user;

Revoke Examples

• Revoke Delete/update privilege on table from user


REVOKE DELETE, UPDATE ON products FROM user;
• Revoke all privilege on table from user
REVOKE ALL ON products FROM user;
• Revoke select privilege on table from all users (Public)
REVOKE SELECT ON products FROM PUBLIC;

Create & Drop Schema


• Create Schema
CREATE schema <schema_name>;
• Create Schema for a user, the schema will also be named as the
user
Create schema authorization <username>;
• Create Schema named John, that will be owned by brett
CREATE schema IF NOT EXISTS john AUTHORIZATION brett;
• Drop a Schema
Drop schema <schema_name>;
(We cannot drop schema if there are any object associate with
it.)

Schema Search Path:

• Show search path can be used to find the current search path.
Example:
postgres=# show search_path;
search_path
-----------------
"$user", public
( 1 row)
• Default "$user" is a special option that says if there is a
schema that matches the current user (i.e SELECT SESSION_USER;),
then search within that schema.
• Search path can be set at session level, user level, database
level and cluster level
Example:
Test1=# SET search_path TO test1,public;
Test1=# \dt
List of relations
Schema | Name | Type | Owner
--------+---------+-------+----------
test1 | abc | table | test1
(1 rows)

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