Re: [ADMIN] security on line by line basis

On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Lorenzo Huerta wrote:

>
> hey folks
>
>  is there a way to set postgres 6.3 up to do security on a record by
> record basis?
>   See what i am doing is createing a database that needs several
> levels of security
>      admin  - total access to databasee
>      sub-admin - total access to database except for the first 2 and
> last 2 entries in the database
>      group-admin - access to only a piece of the database based on
> criteria
>
>   can i create a rule and have grant and revoke privs based on that
> rule?

You can create 3 tables, and then make 2 views: one for the admin, one
for the sub-admin, using union's....

Maarten

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