Show schemas in information_schema.schemata that the current has access to

Before, it would only show schemas that the current user owns.  Per
discussion, the new behavior is more useful and consistent for PostgreSQL.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/information_schema.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/information_schema.sgml
index 3ac555dad37583258eeac46103a04f01a333d600..22e17bb5e6917dbeaaf3931454905a1ddb7b2c20 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/information_schema.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/information_schema.sgml
@@ -4547,8 +4547,9 @@ ORDER BY c.ordinal_position;
   <title><literal>schemata</literal></title>
 
   <para>
-   The view <literal>schemata</literal> contains all schemas in the
-   current database that are owned by a currently enabled role.
+   The view <literal>schemata</literal> contains all schemas in the current
+   database that the current user has access to (by way of being the owner or
+   having some privilege).
   </para>
 
   <table>

diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/information_schema.sql b/src/backend/catalog/information_schema.sql
index 95f267f224ece107735de7e2aa865ea8464b693b..c5f7a8b21008b422b9ec47a0dbe9389dfb6a6bdd 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/catalog/information_schema.sql
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/information_schema.sql
@@ -1502,7 +1502,9 @@ CREATE VIEW schemata AS
            CAST(null AS sql_identifier) AS default_character_set_name,
            CAST(null AS character_data) AS sql_path
     FROM pg_namespace n, pg_authid u
-    WHERE n.nspowner = u.oid AND pg_has_role(n.nspowner, 'USAGE');
+    WHERE n.nspowner = u.oid
+          AND (pg_has_role(n.nspowner, 'USAGE')
+               OR has_schema_privilege(n.oid, 'CREATE, USAGE'));
 
 GRANT SELECT ON schemata TO PUBLIC;