| From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Proposal for SYNONYMS |
| Date: | 2006-03-09 22:10:31 |
| Message-ID: | 20060309140705.N29136@megazone.bigpanda.com |
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Jonah,
>
> > This email is a preliminary design for the implementation of synonyms in
> > PostgreSQL. Comments and suggestions are welcomed.
>
> 1) Is there a SQL standard for this?
>
> 2) For my comprehension, what's the difference between a SYNONYM and a
> single-object (possibly updatable) view?
I think with the plan as described, the permissions handling is slightly
different from how we handle views. As I understood the synonym plan, a
person with select on the synonym but not on the referenced table wouldn't
be able to select through the synonym, while if the view was created by
someone with select a person with select on the view could select through
the view.
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