Re: Permission on insert rules

Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> Luis,
>
> > Just a question.
> > I'm writing some rules to insert/update some data in my database, and I
> > gave all the privileges on that view to the user, and only select on the
> > tables.
> > When that user inserts data using the view, I thought that was user
> > postgres that will do the rest ! But I got permission denied on those
> > tables.
> > The idea was to create a layer, with the views, giving to that user
> > permission on views to insert and update, and not to tables.
> > Is this possible ?
>
> This is a known problem.
>
> I know that permissions for Functions has been addressed in 7.3. However, I
> am not sure about permissions for updatable views. Tom, Bruce?

Views have always had their own permissions.

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