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CREATE USER MAPPING

A DDL command for defining a new mapping of a user to a foreign server

CREATE USER MAPPING is a  DDL command for defining a new mapping of a PostgreSQL database user to a foreign server.

CREATE USER MAPPING was added in PostgreSQL 8.4.

psql commands

  • \deu lists available user mappings
  • \deu+ lists available user mappings together with the parameters provided with the OPTIONS clause

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Examples

postgres=# CREATE USER MAPPING FOR CURRENT_USER SERVER fdw_test OPTIONS (user 'foo', password 'bar');
CREATE USER MAPPING

postgres=# \deu
List of user mappings
  Server  | User name 
----------+-----------
 fdw_test | postgres
(1 row)

postgres=# \deu+
                 List of user mappings
  Server  | User name |          FDW options           
----------+-----------+--------------------------------
 fdw_test | postgres  | ("user" 'foo', password 'bar')
(1 row)

Categories

DDL, Foreign Data Wrapper (FDW), User management

See also

ALTER USER MAPPING, DROP USER MAPPING, pg_user_mapping, pg_user_mappings