Re: SCHEMA compatibility with Oracle/DB2/Firebird

From: Chris <pglist(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Ian Barwick <barwick(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SCHEMA compatibility with Oracle/DB2/Firebird
Date: 2005-01-23 08:04:11
Message-ID: 9a0c82c60501230004c82fe1f@mail.gmail.com
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> You'll probably be best off explicitly providing schema names for your common
> functions, e.g. SELECT * FROM common.mytable . Depending on your app,
> that could be better from a security point of view in PostgreSQL as well,
> if you want to prevent your users from sneakily replacing the common
> database objects.
>
> Ian Barwick
>

In our case the schema's and users are a way to separate data as much
as possible. There aren't any physical users who can do their own
queries. Still a good idea though, that much less of a chance for bad
things to happen in case of a bug in the code.

Chris

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