Re: Restricting access to rows?

Benjamin Smith <lists(at)benjamindsmith(dot)com> schrieb:
> How can I set up a user so that Bob can update his records, without letting
> Bob update Jane's records? Is it possible, say with a view or some other
> intermediate data type?

You can use a VIEW to select all rows for CURRENT_USER, and then create
RULES for this view to do INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE.

A nice framework for row-level access-control is 'veil':
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/veil

HTH, Andreas
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