Re: pgsql: More cleanup on roles patch.

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Stephen Frost wrote:

> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:
>>> Do we follow RBAC  (http://csrc.nist.gov/rbac/) ?
>>
>> Personally, I'm reading SQL99 for this.
>
> I've been following an SQL2003 draft...  That looks interesting but I
> think we probably want to stick to SQL..

we use RBAC for years as an external application and it's very nice to have it
built-in. I'm looking for possibility to check if given role have enough
privileges to perform some operation on some subset of data specified by
WHERE clause. For example, one role is granted full access the whole
catalog, while other could read all catalog and modify only part.

>
>     Thanks,
>
>         Stephen
>

     Regards,
         Oleg
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