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I have logged in as superuser and created a readonly user.

When I run grant command, it says that schema does not exists

I am logging in as root:

sql -h myhost_name -U root -d postgres -W

grant usage on schema autorsid to readonly ;
ERROR:  schema "autorsid" does not exist

while schema does exists but schema owner is not root.

Isn't when you are superuser, we should be able to grant permissions for all database/schema/tables etc.

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  • Does the schema exist in the "postgres" database, or does it exist in some other database in the same cluster? Not even superusers can cross database boundaries.
    – jjanes
    May 30, 2018 at 1:05

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Try grant with double quotes around schema name:

grant usage on schema "autorsid" to readonly ;

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  • still same thing. As a root ( which is superuser on AWS postgres), db_autorsid=> grant usage on schema "autorsid" to readonly ; ERROR: permission denied for schema autorsid db_autorsid=>
    – Sanjay
    May 30, 2018 at 20:33
  • I can grant permission when I connect to user who owns schema ( schema owner) but not when I am connected to superuser. So what exactly is superuser in Postgres, I need something to sqlplus / as sysdba or sys user in oracle which can grant all kind of priviliges.
    – Sanjay
    May 30, 2018 at 20:37

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