Re: How to hidde the column from the user

On Tue, 1 May 2007, rupesh bajaj wrote:

> Hi,
> I want to add a column in the table and also want to hidde that column from
> the user. So that user's normal insertion and update goes on (means user
> will not supply the value for my hidden column). Is there any way to hidde
> the column from the user. I tried to make my column (attisdropped setting as
> true). So now that column is hide from the user but now that column will be
> sometime deleted by postgres. But i do not want that my column should be
> deleted. Is there any way for doing this. Or can you suggest some better way
> for this.

Let user work with view public.table_view, which is a view of 
backend.table.

    Regards,        Oleg
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