I’m using DigitalOcean App Platform and have a dev database with PostgreSQL 17 set up. As part of my planning, I’d like to create a separate schema to attain fine-grained access control.
I’m able to connect to my database using “psql” through the console of my web service.
my-db=> CREATE SCHEMA private;
ERROR: permission denied for database my-db
I can only assume the user provided by DO does not have the permission to create a schema and I seem to be unable to grant it as well:
my-db=> GRANT CREATE ON DATABASE "my-db" TO "my-db";
WARNING: no privileges were granted for "my-db"
GRANT
Is there anything that can be done about this?
Running \l shows that the owner of the database is doadmin, but I have not been giving the credentials for that user.
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