Re: Permissions and PGSQL

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Jean-Eric Cuendet <jean-eric(dot)cuendet(at)bluewin(dot)ch>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Permissions and PGSQL
Date: 2004-01-23 04:48:45
Message-ID: 24064.1074833325@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> On Monday 05 January 2004 12:51, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
>>> - User permissions based on columns?
>
>> Well, I have about half a patch for column privileges lying around, but
>> I've never had enough motivation to do the other, more complicated
>> half...

> I thought views took care of this. Comments?

You can do it with views, but it's tedious, and more to the point the
SQL standard says that you're supposed to be able to do it directly.
So I think this should be on TODO. I wouldn't put a real high priority
on it personally, but it's a spec-compliance item ...

regards, tom lane

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