Re: Hot to restrict access to subset of data

Greg,

using views would be nice.

I have also a add privilege which allows to add only new documents. I think
that this requires writing triggers in Postgres.

This seems to be a lot of work.
I do'nt have enough knowledge to implement this in Postgres.

So it seems to more reasonable to run my application as Postgres superuser
and implement security in application.

Andrus.

"Gregory Youngblood" <gsyoungblood@mac.com> wrote in message
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>I believe you can probably use views to accomplish this.
>
> You create a view that is populated based on their username. Then you
> remove access to the actual table, and grant access to the view.
>
> When people look at the table, they will only see the data in the  view
> and will not have access to the other.
>
> Of course, this assumes they do not need to update the data. I've not
> played around with rules to make a view allow updates. I believe it  is
> possible, I've just not done it yet. This also assumes you have  data
> somewhere that maps user names to document types.
>
> The postgresql docs should provide the syntax and additional details  if
> you want to try this. I have also found pgAdmin very useful to  create
> views and other schema related activities as well.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Greg
>
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