Re: leaky views, yet again

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: leaky views, yet again
Date: 2010-10-07 13:23:27
Message-ID: 20101007132327.GR26232@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Heikki Linnakangas (heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com) wrote:
> On 07.10.2010 16:10, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> Also, even if you can't create functions (due to lack of create
>> privileges on any schema), you could use DO clauses now.
>
> There's no way to shoehorn a DO clause into a SELECT, you can't do:
>
> SELECT data FROM view WHERE (DO $$ RAISE NOTICE argument; $$) = 1

Wow, I just kind of assumed you could; I'm not really sure why. Perhaps
it'll be possible in the future though, so might be something to think
about if/when it happens. Can't see a way to abuse the view from inside
a DO or in a function in the same way either.

Stephen

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