Re: Permission on insert rules

Josh Berkus wrote:
> 
> Luis,
> 
> > Just a question.
> > I'm writing some rules to insert/update some data in my database, and I 
> > gave all the privileges on that view to the user, and only select on the 
> > tables.
> > When that user inserts data using the view, I thought that was user 
> > postgres that will do the rest ! But I got  permission denied on those 
> > tables.
> > The idea was to create a layer, with the views, giving to that user 
> > permission on views to insert and update, and not to tables.
> > Is this possible ?
> 
> This is a known problem.
> 
> I know that permissions for Functions has been addressed in 7.3.   However, I 
> am not sure about permissions for updatable views.   Tom, Bruce?

Views have always had their own permissions.

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