Re: dynamic views

On Tuesday 24 February 2004 16:29, sferriol wrote:
> hello
> is it possible with postgres 7.2 or more, to define a dynamic view.
> For example, i have a table with a column 'user'
> and i want to define a view which gives infomrations from different
> tables but the user has to specifie the 'user' parameter when using a
> select to the view

You can have a view something like:

SELECT * FROM personal_info WHERE owner = CURRENT_USER;

There are some other vars/functions too SESSION_USER and current_database()
etc.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd