From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | jwieck(at)debis(dot)com |
Cc: | Andreas(dot)Zeugswetter(at)telecom(dot)at, pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Here it is - view permissions |
Date: | 1998-02-24 15:09:30 |
Message-ID: | 199802241509.KAA05955@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Andreas wrote:
> >
> > >> the table or even discover that it exists!
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > Not in 6.3, or maybe ever. Too much OO stuff for that, I think.
> >
> > I vote for not ever. No commercial DBMS has it. It is a standard
> > that is of very restricted practicability. You can always split into
> > different
> > databases whatever needs turbo security.
>
> I'm not quite sure if any commercial RDMBS does it. But since
> we don't have the ability to create multiple tables/views of
> the same name as long as the owner differs, I think it's
> better to stay as we are. As long as PostgreSQL cannot
> distinguish tables of the same name by a <user>.tablename
> syntax, it's better to let them know what tables already
> exist.
I have NOT added this to the TODO list.
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