Re: Permissions and PGSQL

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(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 05:02:35
Message-ID: 200401230502.i0N52ZU04128@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> 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 ...

Added to TODO:

* Allow column-level privileges

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