Re: How to create read-only view on 9.3

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomonari Katsumata <katsumata(dot)tomonari(at)po(dot)ntts(dot)co(dot)jp>, Szymon Guz <mabewlun(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How to create read-only view on 9.3
Date: 2013-08-13 18:03:42
Message-ID: 20130813180342.GG2706@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Hannu Krosing (hannu(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> If you earlier used views for granting limited read access to some views
> you definitely did not want view users suddenly gain also write access to
> underlying table.
>
> You also probably did not GRANT only SELECT to your views as this was
> the default anyway,

I'm not really convinced that we should be catering to this argument of
"well, I knew it was gonna end up being read-only anyway, so I just
GRANT'd ALL"- consider that rules can make view writable, even in
existing releases.

Thanks,

Stephen

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