Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 17:19:28 Tom Lane wrote:
>> It's a potential security hole, since GRANT ALL on a view used to
>> be de facto the same as GRANT SELECT, if you hadn't bothered to
>> create any rules.
> That is a good point. But the only clean solution would be to make views
> never updatable by default, and invent a nonstandard syntax to make them so,
> which seems very unattractive to me. A GUC variable as a transition measure
> could work, though.
Yeah, I tend to prefer the GUC approach over nonstandard syntax too.
We'd need a GUC anyway to determine the default behavior if no
nonstandard clause appeared; so we might as well just do that and not
bother with the syntax options.
regards, tom lane