Re: Views and permissions

Tom Lane wrote:
> Table accesses done by a view are checked according to the privileges
> of the owner of the view, not of whoever invoked the view.  It's a
> bit inconsistent because function calls done in the view are not handled
> that way (though I hope we change them to match, someday).
>
Phew, sometimes I'm surprised about my own stupidity! I used this more
than once to create views that gave people access to tables they would
otherwise not be allowed to read, but I simply did not recognize that
it's simply the same in this case.
And by now I also found the section in the manual where this is
described (35.4, if someone is interested).
> You can use "pg_dumpall -g" to get a dump of just global objects (roles
> and tablespaces).  If you do want to stick to hand-rolled scripts, then
>
Thanks, I didn't know this option. The next migration will be much
easier with this!
> yeah, you need to take another look at it.  Since 8.1 there is very
> little difference between users and groups --- they are all roles, and
> the only actual difference is the default settings of their LOGIN and
> INHERITS flags.  See the CREATE ROLE reference page for details.
>
Yes, I know the new role concept, but I didn't realize that it had these
impacts on my script. Anyway, I won't need it anymore, now that you told
me the "pg_dumpall -g" solution.

Thanks again,
    Christian

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