create view security

Hi All,

I am trying to enable my web site to create views in a database owned by a
user called ddirpts. Now, the web server runs as nobody, and nobody has a
user and database set up in Postgres.. But the problem is, whenever I have a
cgi program issue a create view query on the ddirpts database, the backend
reports Parse error at or near "". I can however issue create view commands
as ddirpts.

I was thinking this might be a security restriction, wherein no user can
create views/tables in another user's database without some kind of special
permission--problem is, how do I create the permission?

I am using 6.3 in this case.

_________________________________________________
Ted Wallingford
Manager of Information Technology
Independence Excavating, Inc.
Precision Environmental Co.
Independence Communications, Inc.
www.indexc.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Lockhart [mailto:lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 10:04 PM
> To: Tom Lane
> Cc: Peter Eisentraut; Joseph Shraibman; pgsql-sql@postgresql.org;
> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [SQL] aliases break my query
>
>
> > At one time Bruce had made some patches to emit informative notice
> > messages about implicit FROM entries, but that got turned off again
> > for reasons that I forget...
>
> It was triggered with common cases from the "outer join"
> syntax. It took
> a while to track down since it was introduced while I was
> working on the
> syntax feature :(
>
> If it *really* needs to be put back in, then we should do so
> with a flag
> so we can disable the warning at compile time, run time, and/or in the
> outer join parser area. But imho sprinkling the parser with
> warnings for
> allowed syntax is heading the wrong direction. If it is
> legal, allow it.
> If it is illegal, disallow it. If it is confusing for some, but works
> fine for others, it shouldn't become "sort of legal" with a warning.
>
>                    - Thomas
>