Re: My honours project - databases using dynamically attached entity-properties - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: My honours project - databases using dynamically attached entity-properties
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Msg-id 200703121741.01188.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: My honours project - databases using dynamically attached entity-properties  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: My honours project - databases using dynamically attached entity-properties  (Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>)
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> And then what? dynamically construct all your SQL queries?
> Sure, sounds like a simple solution to me...

Not to mention DB security issues.  How do you secure your database when 
your web client has DDL access?

So, Edward, the really *interesting* idea would be to come up with a 
secure, normalized way to do UDFs *without* EAV tables.  People would be 
very impressed.

BTW, Google Summer of Code opens Wednesday:
http://www.postgresql.org/developer/summerofcode.html

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco


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