Re: viewing source code

Roberts, Jon escribió:
> So you are saying I need to create a view per user to achieve this?  That
> isn't practical for an enterprise level database.

No -- that would be quite impractical indeed.  I'm talking about
something like

revoke all privileges on pg_proc from public;
create view limited_pg_proc
as select * from pg_proc
where proowner = (select oid from pg_authid where rolname = current_user);
grant select on limited_pg_proc to public;

Of course, it is only a rough sketch.  It needs to be improved in a
number of ways.  But it shows that even with pure SQL the solution is
not far; with backend changes it is certainly doable (for example invent
a separate "view source" privilege for functions).

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