Re: User permissions

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 14:49, Lars Preben S. Arnesen wrote:
> I'm writing a web application to access a Postgres database. I want
> the application to use a user with limited permissions - it should
> only be able to execute predefined functions in the database.
>
> I have been searching for the Postgres-way of doing this, but I din't
> find any solution.
>
> I have designed functions with pl/pgsql which do alter, insert, select
> and delete in the database, but I don't want the database user to be
> able to perform these actions without using the predefined functions.
>
> How can I do this?

What middleware are you using? If you are using Java/JSP then you fix
the permissions at the web page level.

Cheers

Tony Grant

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