Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Automatic view update rules Bernd Helmle

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 17:19:28 Tom Lane wrote:
>>> It's a potential security hole, since GRANT ALL on a view used to
>>> be de facto the same as GRANT SELECT, if you hadn't bothered to
>>> create any rules.
>
>> That is a good point.  But the only clean solution would be to make views
>> never updatable by default, and invent a nonstandard syntax to make them so,
>> which seems very unattractive to me.  A GUC variable as a transition measure
>> could work, though.
>
> Yeah, I tend to prefer the GUC approach over nonstandard syntax too.
> We'd need a GUC anyway to determine the default behavior if no
> nonstandard clause appeared; so we might as well just do that and not
> bother with the syntax options.
>

+1


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