Re: RLS Design

Adam,

* Brightwell, Adam (adam(dot)brightwell(at)crunchydatasolutions(dot)com) wrote:
> > Yeah, now that we're trying to bake this into ALTER TABLE we need to be
> > a bit more cautious. I'd think:
> >
> > ALTER TABLE tab POLICY ADD ...
> >
> > Would work though? (note: haven't looked/tested myself)
>
> Yes, I just tested it and the following would work from a grammar
> perspective:
>
> ALTER TABLE <table_name> POLICY ADD <policy_name> (policy_quals)
> ALTER TABLE <table_name> POLICY DROP <policy_name>

Excellent, glad to hear it.

> Though, it would obviously require the addition of POLICY to the list of
> unreserved keywords. I don't suspect that would be a concern, as it is not
> "reserved", but thought I would point it out just in case.

Right, I don't anticipate anyone complaining too loudly about that..

> Another thought I had was, would we also want the following, so that
> policies could be modified?
>
> ALTER TABLE <table_name> POLICY ALTER <policy_name> (policy_quals)

Sounds like a good idea to me.

Thanks!

Stephen