RE: [SQL] Re: create view security

Hi Jan,

Thanks for the insight, but can you tell me if the PostgreSQL ODBC driver
for Windows works with PostgreSQL 7.0?

thx,
Ted

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


> -----Original Message-----
> From: JanWieck@t-online.de [mailto:JanWieck@t-online.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 10:25 PM
> To: Peter Eisentraut
> Cc: Wallingford, Ted; 'pgsql-admin@postgresql.org';
> pgsql-sql@postgresql.orgg
> Subject: Re: [SQL] Re: [ADMIN] create view security
>
>
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Wallingford, Ted writes:
> >
> > > I am using 6.3 in this case.
> >
> > I'm sorry but that is pre-historic era around here and no one really
> > remembers what the problems might have been back then
> (other than that
> > they were surely plenty). Upgrading might be your best bet
> on all fronts.
>
>     You're wrong - I remember, not 100% sure, but good enough.
>
>     Just  two  weeks  ago (funny - isn't it) I made a deal with a
>     friend, exchanging this  old  486/33DLC,  8MB,  1GB  portable
>     (640x480  gray  but  onboard  SCSI!)  with a planimeter (nice
>     mechanic  tool  that  fit's  perfectly  into   my   sliderule
>     collection  - that friend collects sliderules too so he knows
>     how to get me :-).
>
>     That old portable was the computer, most of the  rule  system
>     fixes  for  v6.4 where developed on. I'm pretty sure that the
>     Rule-Owner-Needs-Perm changes where part of it.
>
>     The executor is doing a permisson check of  the  result-  and
>     all  scan  relations  just before starting the execution. For
>     v6.4 (or was THAT in 6.5 - dunno exactly) I  added  a  little
>     flag  to  the  rangetable  entry that tells "this relation is
>     accessed through a view and permissions are already checked".
>     Since  then,  it  was  the rewriter that checked if the view-
>     owner would have the permissions for all  relations  used  by
>     the view.
>
>     Anyway,  upgrading  IS  the best (if not the only) choice for
>     him.
>
>
> Jan
>
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