Dave,
Sorry to be so late in responding to this but I may have just the
solution for you.
Please check out Veil at pgfoundry. This is an add-on to Postgres that
I think does just what you are looking for. As the developer of this
project, I would be pleased to offer you assistance.
http://veil.projects.postgresql.org/
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Marc
> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:36:23 +0700
> From: David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com>
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Setting up a fine-grained permission system
> Message-ID: <433B6137.3070103@zara.6.isreserved.com>
>
> Hi,
>
> Our current project requires a fine-grained permission system
(row-level
> and possibly column-level as well). We have a pretty large (tens of
> thousands) of users in the 'party' table. I'm thinking of choosing
> Unix-style security for now (adding 'ugo' and 'owner' and 'group'
> columns to each table which access need to be regulated), but am
unsure
> about the column-level permission.
>
> Anyone has experiences to share on a similar system/requirement? Do
you
> do Unix-style or ACL? Is there a possibility in the medium/far future
> that Postgres will have such a fine-grained permission system.
>
> Regards,
> Dave
