Question
Permission denied for database postgres when creating schemas in dev database
- Posted on February 13, 2021
- PostgreSQLDigitalOcean App PlatformDatabases
Asked by mateust
I was able to successfully connect to my app’s dev database, however when I try to create a schema with this script:
client.query(
`CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS ${team};`, (err, res) => {
if (err) console.log(err.stack);
});
I get the following error:
digitalocean app error: permission denied for database db
I understand that the dev database doesn’t allow me to create databases, but nothing is said about creating schemas which is what I tried to do. It turns out that the default user db doesn’t have that privilege and it seems that there’s no way for me to change it.
What are the default user permissions? Should I be allowed to create PostgreSQL schemas in the dev database? This is what I get, and it looks like the user I have access to has no permissions whatsoever.
| Role name | Attributes | Member of |
|---|---|---|
| _dodb | Superuser, Replication | {} |
| db | {} | |
| doadmin | Create role, Create DB, Replication, Bypass RLS | {db} |
| postgres | Superuser, Create role, Create DB, Replication, Bypass RLS | {} |
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I had the same issue deploying django multi tenant solution based on django-tenants. After doing some bit of digging i found out that the db_user created from the control panel have minimal permissions based on DO ‘principle of least privilege’ as defined in the documentation.
To fix this you need to connect to the cluster via psql defaultdb=> propt and grant permissions to your user using the following command GRANT CREATE ON DATABASE <your db> TO <your user>;
More on this you can referce the documentation here https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/postgresql/how-to/modify-user-privileges/
Could anyone solve this?
@kamaln7 any news? I’m trying to develop a new API, but I cannot create a new schema on my dev database.
I am also experiencing this issue, and it’s preventing me from moving forward with a project; I’d love to use hosted Postgres instead of maintaining my own, but I need multiple schema to do it.