# Create a read-only user in PostgreSQL

To create a read-only user in PostgreSQL, you can follow these steps:

1. Connect to your PostgreSQL database as a user with sufficient privileges, such as the superuser or a user with the `CREATEROLE` privilege.
2. Open a SQL client or a terminal and execute the following SQL statement to create a new user. 

   Replace `'password'` with the desired password for the read-only user:

<pre class="language-sql"><code class="lang-sql"><strong>CREATE USER readonly_user WITH PASSWORD 'password';
</strong></code></pre>

3. Grant the necessary privileges to the read-only user. In this case, we want the user to have only read access to specific tables. Execute the following SQL statement to grant `SELECT` privileges on the desired tables, Replace `table_name` with the name of the table you want to grant read access to. Repeat this step for each table you want to include:

```sql
GRANT SELECT ON table_name TO readonly_user;
```

4. Finally, you can create credentials with the new read-only user to test the access. The read-only user should be able to connect to the database and perform `SELECT` queries on the granted tables but will not have permission to modify the data.


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