Re: How to create read-only view on 9.3

Hi,

(2013/08/14 5:24), Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 08/13/2013 11:18 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
>>> If you earlier used views for granting limited read access to some
views
>>> you definitely did not want view users suddenly gain also write
access to
>>> underlying table.
>>
>> Unless you'd explicitly granted those users insert/update/delete
privilege
>> on the view, they wouldn't suddenly be able to do something new in 9.3,
>> because no such privileges are granted by default. If you had granted
>> such privileges, you don't have much of a leg to stand on for
complaining
>> that now they can do it.
>
> Ah, ok. I hadn't gotten to the testing phase yet.
>
> I think we should have a script available for revoking all write privs
> on all views and link it from somewhere (the release notes?), but I
> don't see any need to change anything in the release.
>
Yes, I was not thinking about changing current 9.3 behavior.
So I think it's enough to know the impact and how to avoid that
on the release notes.

thanks a lot!

regards,
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NTT Software Corporation
Tomonari Katsumata