From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 01:45:02 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Document permissions needed for pg_database_size and pg_tablespace_size.
X-Git-Tag: REL9_2_9~55
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=901202248ea465b2ffd77c4a5ec57d27908099dd;p=postgresql

Document permissions needed for pg_database_size and pg_tablespace_size.

Back in 8.3, we installed permissions checks in these functions (see
commits 8bc225e7990a and cc26599b7206).  But we forgot to document that
anywhere in the user-facing docs; it did get mentioned in the 8.3 release
notes, but nobody's looking at that any more.  Per gripe from Suya Huang.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 8aa4d5fe7f..3630ba6fc0 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -15090,7 +15090,11 @@ postgres=# SELECT * FROM pg_xlogfile_name_offset(pg_stop_backup());
    <para>
     <function>pg_database_size</function> and <function>pg_tablespace_size</>
     accept the OID or name of a database or tablespace, and return the total
-    disk space used therein.
+    disk space used therein.  To use <function>pg_database_size</function>,
+    you must have <literal>CONNECT</> permission on the specified database
+    (which is granted by default).  To use <function>pg_tablespace_size</>,
+    you must have <literal>CREATE</> permission on the specified tablespace,
+    unless it is the default tablespace for the current database.
    </para>
 
    <para>