Re: [GENERAL] Is this a security risk?

2008-12-17 Thread Adam Witney
On 17 Dec 2008, at 14:44, Albe Laurenz wrote: Adam Witney wrote: I would like to provide a limited view of my database to some users, so i thought of creating a second database (I can control access by IP address through pg_hba.conf) with some views that queried the first database using

Re: [GENERAL] Is this a security risk?

2008-12-17 Thread Adam Witney
On 17 Dec 2008, at 07:48, Albe Laurenz wrote: Adam Witney wrote: I would like to provide a limited view of my database to some users, so i thought of creating a second database (I can control access by IP address through pg_hba.conf) with some views that queried the first database using

Re: [GENERAL] Is this a security risk?

2008-12-17 Thread Albe Laurenz
Adam Witney wrote: I would like to provide a limited view of my database to some users, so i thought of creating a second database (I can control access by IP address through pg_hba.conf) with some views that queried the first database using dblink. In my opinion dblink is not the right

[GENERAL] Is this a security risk?

2008-12-16 Thread Adam Witney
I would like to provide a limited view of my database to some users, so i thought of creating a second database (I can control access by IP address through pg_hba.conf) with some views that queried the first database using dblink. The problem is that dblink requires non-superusers to

Re: [GENERAL] Is this a security risk?

2008-12-16 Thread Albe Laurenz
Adam Witney wrote: I would like to provide a limited view of my database to some users, so i thought of creating a second database (I can control access by IP address through pg_hba.conf) with some views that queried the first database using dblink. In my opinion dblink is not the right