On 4/29/07, Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> I cannot find a discussion of the meaning and use of Declarative
> Referential Integrity (DRI) in the on-line docs ToC or Index. Please tell me
> in which chapter/section this is covered.
The closest counterpart to MS SQL Server's DRI is the "references" permission:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/sql-grant.html
Note, however, that PostgreSQL doesn't have column-level permissions,
so this is by table only:
> Currently, PostgreSQL does not support granting or revoking privileges for
> individual columns of a table. One possible workaround is to create a view
> having just the desired columns and then grant privileges to that view.
Alexander.