Re: How to Prevent Certain Kinds of Joins? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Richard Huxton
Subject Re: How to Prevent Certain Kinds of Joins?
Date
Msg-id 421B9129.9060905@archonet.com
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In response to How to Prevent Certain Kinds of Joins?  (Heather Johnson <hjohnson@nypost.com>)
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Heather Johnson wrote:
> Is there a way to revoke permission to join two or more tables, even for
> users who have all other permissions (e.g., select, insert, update,
> delete) on those tables?

I don't think you can, and I'm not sure it makes sense to. If I can
select from tables ta,tb then I can match them up in my client - if
needs be I can save the data and import it into a local database.

Could you hide the column(s) being joined on? If so, then you could
create two views and just grant access to those.
  CREATE TABLE ta (id_a int, notes_a text, joinval_a int)
  CREATE TABLE tb (id_b int, notes_b text, joinval_b int)
  CREATE VIEW va AS SELECT id_a,notes_a FROM ta
  CREATE VIEW vb AS SELECT id_b,notes_b FROM tb
  GRANT ALL ON VIEW va TO ...
  GRANT ALL ON VIEW vb TO ...
  REVOKE ALL ON TABLE ta FROM ...
  REVOKE ALL ON TABLE tb FROM ...
You'll want to add rules for updating/inserting, assuming that can be
done while concealing the existence of joinval_a/b

--
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd

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