Re: User Privileges using dblink

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:03:37AM +0200, "Kreißl, Karsten" wrote:

> But, under this conditions we must specify username and password
> (without encryption!) in the view definition. Every user can read
> this information using pgadmin or other tools. It's very simple ! In
> our environment the remote DB knows the same users as our local DB. So
> we are always searching for a solution, without publishing username
> and password. Our background is a migration from INFORMIX DB to
> PostgreSQL. Using INFORMIX there is a rather simple solution for this
> problem, called Synonyms.

Personally, I think it's a very bad idea to use a different database for
this kind of data exchange. I'd go with using different schemas.
There's a lot more fine grained control on access privileges, and users
won't be able to see any password; also, the performance should be much
better.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"El número de instalaciones de UNIX se ha elevado a 10,
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