GRANT SELECT ON accounts TO GROUP staff;

</programlisting>

The special <quote>user</quote> name <literal>PUBLIC</literal> can

be used to grant a privilege to every user on the system.Using

be used to grant a privilege to every user on the system.Writing

<literal>ALL</literal> in place of a specific privilege specifies that all

privileges will be granted.

</para>

<programlisting>

REVOKE ALL ON accounts FROM PUBLIC;

</programlisting>

The special privileges of the table owner are always implicit

and cannot be granted or revoked.

The special privileges of the table owner (i.e., the right to do

<command>DROP</>, <command>GRANT</>, <command>REVOKE</>, etc)

are always implicit in being the owner,

and cannot be granted or revoked. But the table owner can choose

to revoke his own ordinary privileges, for example to make a

table read-only for himself as well as others.

</para>

</sect1>