Re: How many views is ok? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: How many views is ok?
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Msg-id 5059.1124066280@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to How many views is ok?  ("Petr Kavan" <petr.kavan@marekmicro.cz>)
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"Petr Kavan" <petr.kavan@marekmicro.cz> writes:
> Possibility is to create a view for each employee that chooses only his data
> and give employee privileges to this view. But I am not sure if such number
> of views does not have some performance drawbacks or even if postgre can
> support it (I expect i can).

Do you really need more than one view?  I'd consider something like

    create view emp_view as select * from emp where name = current_user;

This requires that your Postgres usernames match up with something in
the underlying table, of course.

            regards, tom lane

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