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Make a user read-only after its created via the Google api (ie via Terraform)
-- CREATE read-only user when the user was created via the Google Cloud API (ie terraform)
-- GOOGLE CLOUD by default give fairly broad permissions
-- Prior reading https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13497352/error-permission-denied-for-relation-tablename-on-postgres-while-trying-a-selec
-- https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/databases/postgresql/how-to/modify-user-privileges/
REVOKE ALL ON DATABASE db FROM "dev-readonly";
-- This next line is important
REVOKE cloudsqlsuperuser FROM "dev-readonly";
GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA public TO "dev-readonly";
ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES IN SCHEMA public GRANT SELECT ON TABLES TO "dev-readonly";
GRANT CONNECT on DATABASE db TO "dev-readonly";
ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES IN SCHEMA public GRANT SELECT ON TABLES to "dev-readonly";
GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA public to "dev-readonly";
GRANT SELECT ON ALL SEQUENCES IN SCHEMA public TO "dev-readonly";
GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO "dev-readonly";
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Nice one.

A question on GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA public to "dev-readonly";: it doesn't seem to work for me:

WARNING:  no privileges could be revoked for "public"
REVOKE

Are you getting that as well?

-> I logged in via psql as the DB owner.

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