Re: HIPPA (was Re: Anyone know ...) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Kenneth Downs
Subject Re: HIPPA (was Re: Anyone know ...)
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In response to Re: HIPPA (was Re: Anyone know ...)  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: HIPPA (was Re: Anyone know ...)  ("David Legault" <legault.david@gmail.com>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
David Legault escribió: 
That's basically what I've done with my past questions on the ROLE system in
place. Since roles are global, I wanted it fine grained to the DB level so I
had to append DB_ in front of each role name and by using current_database()
inside my functions, I could hide that from the exterior.   
Hmm, there used to be a facility to restrict users to specific
databases, enabled by db_user_namespace (not by default).

It seems to still work on 8.2 ...
 

there is also the 'samegroup' facility in pg_hba.conf.  We create a group named after each database, and a person cannot get into a database unless they are in that group.

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