I would still recommend making it available as a web service rather
than giving direct access; besides the security/load issues, it lets
you change the representation of the data without necessarily
affecting customers (of course, you can do this also at the DB level
with views). The web service i
I realize that direct access gives an outside user the opportunity to
overload the server. In fact, I am far less worried about malicious
DOS-type attacks than I am about plain old incompetence, such as having a
buggy script hammer our server with an infinite loop.
BTW, is there a way to configu
* Kynn Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On 3/15/07, Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >* Kynn Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> >One big question I have is, is this completely read-only?
>
> Sorry, I should have made this clear: the access we had in mind is
> strictly read-only, and
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 07:38:25AM -0400, Douglas McNaught wrote:
> "Kynn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > We have an in-house Postgres database that we would like to make
> > publicly accessible via a password-less login (user: anonymous).
> > (We already have a web front-end for this dat
On 3/15/07, Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Kynn Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
One big question I have is, is this completely read-only?
Sorry, I should have made this clear: the access we had in mind is
strictly read-only, and only a subset of the tables at that.
kj
* Kynn Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Now, supposing we have a fresh batch of host registration requests
> that have passed all the filters we may impose on them (i.e. they have
> been "approved" somehow). How best to automate the process of
> granting access to these host? I suppose that the
"Kynn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We have an in-house Postgres database that we would like to make
> publicly accessible via a password-less login (user: anonymous). (We
> already have a web front-end for this database, but we have had a lot
> of requests to allow programmatic access in
