Greg, using views would be nice.
I have also a add privilege which allows to add only new documents. I think that this requires writing triggers in Postgres. This seems to be a lot of work. I do'nt have enough knowledge to implement this in Postgres. So it seems to more reasonable to run my application as Postgres superuser and implement security in application. Andrus. "Gregory Youngblood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I believe you can probably use views to accomplish this. > > You create a view that is populated based on their username. Then you > remove access to the actual table, and grant access to the view. > > When people look at the table, they will only see the data in the view > and will not have access to the other. > > Of course, this assumes they do not need to update the data. I've not > played around with rules to make a view allow updates. I believe it is > possible, I've just not done it yet. This also assumes you have data > somewhere that maps user names to document types. > > The postgresql docs should provide the syntax and additional details if > you want to try this. I have also found pgAdmin very useful to create > views and other schema related activities as well. > > Hope this helps, > Greg > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
