Re: Permission on insert rules

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 ?

I just checked this. It works fine in 7.2.3.

I think that you are missing a step. If you want to have an updatable view,
then you need to define a Rule for updating it, such as:

kitchen=# create rule update_password as on update to user_password
kitchen-# do instead update "user" set "password" = NEW."password"
kitchen-# where user_id = OLD.user_id;

See the online docs, under Server Programming, for how to use the RULES
system.

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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco