Re: [HACKERS] column-level privilege

2006-07-26 Thread Andrew Hammond
> I am a PostgreSQL lover at China, I'd like to know when the column-level 
> privilege can be added to a release version of PostgreSQL? and is there 
> someone who is working on the problem?

You can often achieve similar effects with VIEWs and RULEs / TRIGGERs.

Drew


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Re: [HACKERS] column-level privilege

2006-07-25 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2006 09:13 schrieb jkzhao:
>> I am a PostgreSQL lover at China, I'd like to know when the
>> column-level privilege can be added to a release version of PostgreSQL? and
>> is there someone who is working on the problem?

> It would certainly be a welcome feature, but there are no concrete plans for 
> it yet.

There was someone fooling with it awhile ago, but we've not heard from
him lately --- IIRC he was last seen trying to deal with the fact that
parts of the system assume pg_attribute tuples are fixed-width.  Check
the archives.

regards, tom lane

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Re: [HACKERS] column-level privilege

2006-07-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2006 09:13 schrieb jkzhao:
> I am a PostgreSQL lover at China, I'd like to know when the
> column-level privilege can be added to a release version of PostgreSQL? and
> is there someone who is working on the problem?

It would certainly be a welcome feature, but there are no concrete plans for 
it yet.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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