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ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES

ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES is a utility command for defining default object access privileges.

ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES was added in PostgreSQL 9.0.

Change history

• PostgreSQL 16
  • now requires privileges instead of membership (commit 48a257d4)
• PostgreSQL 10
  • support for altering privileges on schemas added (commit ab89e465)
• PostgreSQL 9.2
  • support for altering privileges on types added (commit 72920557)
• PostgreSQL 9.0
  • added (commit 249724cb)

Examples

postgres=# CREATE SCHEMA someschema;
CREATE SCHEMA

postgres=# ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES IN SCHEMA someschema GRANT SELECT ON TABLES TO foo;
ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES

postgres=# \ddp
             Default access privileges
  Owner   |   Schema   | Type  | Access privileges
----------+------------+-------+-------------------
 postgres | someschema | table | foo=r/postgres
(1 row)

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