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

From: Hiroshi Inoue <inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
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: 2007-06-29 00:31:13
Message-ID: 468452D1.3000009@tpf.co.jp
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Dave Page wrote:
> 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.

Hmm the apps list the tables using SQLTables() ?

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue

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