Re: [HACKERS] Here it is - view permissions

So I've never gotten the distinction -- what makes postgreSQL an
object oriented database, aside from the oid attribute and class
inheritance (which could work a little better.. no way to find out the
child class of a tuple in a select from parent_class* query).

and what makes it relational? the fact that it can do joins?

in confused delerium,
--brett

On Mon, 23 February 1998, at 17:35:09, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Will be the default in 6.3, I think.
>
> > the table or even discover that it exists!
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Not in 6.3, or maybe ever. Too much OO stuff for that, I think.
>
> >
> > It certainly seems undesirable to give automatic access to data of unknown
> > sensitivity. Surely the default permission should be for the table's
> > creator alone or for the owner of the PostgreSQL database (which I suppose
> > is equivalent to the `schema').
> >
> > I see that Jan Wieck has posted a method for preventing world readability;
> > perhaps this should just be flagged as a configurable option.
>
>
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