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.
pg_database_size and 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 pg_database_size,
+ you must have CONNECT> permission on the specified database
+ (which is granted by default). To use pg_tablespace_size>,
+ you must have CREATE> permission on the specified tablespace,
+ unless it is the default tablespace for the current database.