PostgreSQL 8.4 grant DML privileges on all tables to a role

Question

How do I go about granting DML (SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE) on all tables in a schema in PostgreSQL 8.4? I\'d also like this grant to persist for new table creation in the

Answer 1

I believe you can't do that. But you can use the information schema to generate the grants so you don't have to manually do it for 10,000 tables. See the link below for a relative example and the site linked to easy very good for info.

http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/30-DML-to-generate-DDL-and-DCL-Making-structural-and-Permission-changes-to-multiple-tables.html