You need to do 2 things: firstly, allow access to existing objects; and secondly, set the default access for new objects created from now on.
Note that granting access to "TABLES" includes views, but does not include sequences (such as the auto-increment function for "SERIAL" columns), so you'll probably want to grant access to those as well.
The below assumes you want to do everything in the public schema. The ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES statement can act on the entire database by omitting the IN SCHEMA ... clause; the GRANT has to be run once for each schema.
-- Grant access to current tables and views GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO user1; -- Now make sure that's also available on new tables and views by default ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES IN SCHEMA public -- omit this line to make a default across all schemas GRANT SELECT ON TABLES TO user1;
-- Now do the same for sequences GRANT SELECT, USAGE ON ALL SEQUENCES IN SCHEMA public TO user1; ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES IN SCHEMA public -- omit this line to make a default across all schemas GRANT SELECT, USAGE ON SEQUENCES TO user1;
PostgreSQL manual
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/sql-grant.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/sql-alterdefaultprivileges.html
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