You are right Sebastien, <br>I should have mentioned the above template
is not ideal for production as it grants PUBLIC all privileges on
geometry_columns & spatial_ref_sys. <br><br>For production you
will probably want to change the ownership of geometry_columns &
spatial_ref_sys tables to the user creating the database and revoke it
from public.
<br><br>The only way I can think of doing that is to write a plpgsql
script or a shell script that will make the changes AFTER the database
has been created using the template_postgis using ALTER commands Chander suggested. <br><br>it will probably contain something like:<br><br>REVOKE ALL ON geometry_columns FROM PUBLIC<br>GRANT ALL ON geometry_columns TO <user>
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<br>Anyone else had any experience with being able to do this at the time the database is created from the template?<br><br>Let us know if you do write something ...<br><font color="#888888">Shoaib</font><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Dec 18, 2007 11:40 PM, Chander Ganesan <<a href="mailto:chander@otg-nc.com">chander@otg-nc.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Sebastien ARBOGAST wrote:
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<pre>I still have one problem with this procedure. The owner of
template_postgis is the user with which I created it, in this case
postgres. And when I create a new database based on this template,
both geometry_columns and spatial_ref_sys have their owner set to
postgres instead of the owner of the new database.
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When you create a database, the database itself is owned by the user
that issued the create database command....if that user was 'postgres',
then he/she would own the database. If you look at the syntax of the
create database command, they you'll see how you can set the owner of a
DB when you create the DB. However, I suspect that isn't your problem.<br>
<br>
Instead, I think that you have a schema or other objects in the
'template_postgis' database that is owned by the user 'postgres'. That
schema, along with any other permissions *inside* the database are
copied "as is" when creating a new database (regardless of the database
owner). As such, you should change the ownership of the schema so
that it's owned by the appropriate user (the same would go for any
tables, indexes, etc. inside the database that you want owned by
someone else).<br>
<br>
I recommend you check out the online help for 'ALTER SCHEMA', 'ALTER
TABLE', 'ALTER SEQUENCE', and the other related commands to see how to
change the ownership of the objects you want to change.<br>
<br>
Hope that helps.<br>
<br>
Chander<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
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<pre>Is it normal? Is there a way to change that?
2007/12/16, Sebastien ARBOGAST <a href="mailto:sebastien.arbogast@gmail.com" target="_blank"><sebastien.arbogast@gmail.com></a>:
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<pre>Yes! That worked great. Thanks to both of you.
2007/12/16, LuVar <a href="mailto:varga.lubomir@orangemail.sk" target="_blank"><varga.lubomir@orangemail.sk></a>:
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<pre>Jop. I get also the same. Just try to disconnect in pgAdmin and
reconnect. Than click ONLY on that database, in which you want to do
somethink. Dont open "template_postgis" table. You must have an red
cross iccon on "template_postgis" database.
Try, and good luck.
Sunday, December 16, 2007, 3:25:11 PM, you wrote:
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<pre>I just did that and I can't create a database based on template_postgis.
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<pre>When I try to do it via pgAdmin, I get a message saying that "Source
database "template_postgis" is being accessed by other users
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<pre>When I try to run the command in terminal, I get the following message:
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<pre>createdb: could not connect to database template1: could not translate
host name "tagspot_local" to address: nodename nor servname provided,
or not known
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<pre>2007/12/16, Shoaib Burq <a href="mailto:shoaib@nomad-labs.com" target="_blank"><shoaib@nomad-labs.com></a>:
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<pre>Sebastian, please see:
<a href="http://geospatial.nomad-labs.com/2007/12/16/template-postgis-database/" target="_blank">http://geospatial.nomad-labs.com/2007/12/16/template-postgis-database/</a>
shoaib
On Dec 16, 2007 10:15 AM, Sebastien ARBOGAST <a href="mailto:sebastien.arbogast@gmail.com" target="_blank"><sebastien.arbogast@gmail.com></a>
wrote:
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<pre>Hi,
I've just installed postgresql 8.2.5 and postgis 1.3.2 on my mac and
everything works great so far. Now I'm just looking for a way to
simplify the creation of postgis-enabled databases in pgAdmin.
I saw that in the Windows distribution, there is a template to do so,
but there is no such template in my installation. Knowing that it's
the first time that I use postgresql and postgis, is there a way to
create such a template?
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