Re: Proposal for new pgsqlODBC feature - hiding tables inaccessible to the current user

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Hiroshi Inoue <inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark(dot)cave-ayland(at)ilande(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Proposal for new pgsqlODBC feature - hiding tables inaccessible to the current user
Date: 2007-06-28 15:54:11
Message-ID: 4683D9A3.7010307@postgresql.org
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Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
> Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 09:01 +0900, Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
>>
>>> How about changing the default behavior of SQLTables to list only
>>> SELECTable tables and add a bit to Extra Opts to list inaccessible
>>> tables also ?
>> I think this would risk breaking a lot of existing applications.
>
> Really ?
> I can hardly imagine the applications which would update/delete
> the rows whose contents couldn't be seen.

insert-only audit tables?

Yes, they should really be handled by server-side triggers, but I know
of at least a couple of apps running on PostgreSQL with psqlODBC that do
it client side.

Regards, Dave

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