On 04/29/2015 10:03 AM, John McKown wrote:
> I am wondering about useful something might be. So I hope ya'll don't
> mind me throwing out for feedback. I am fairly good with standard SQL,
> but not the more advanced DBA things such as TRIGGERs. I am reading good
> book, "PostgreSQL Server Programming" to increase my knowledge. The
> section that I'm on now is about triggers. And how to use them to
> enforce a "read only" column. So I'm wondering if such is very common? I
> can see some uses for it with things which "should not change", such as
> a system generated date/time in an audit log. Given how much PostgreSQL
> extends beyond the ANSI standard, I'm wondering if a new column
> modifier, perhaps "WORM" (Write Once, Read Many) might be of any real
> use. Or is this "need" just not prevalent enough to require such a thing?
>
> just thinking. But maybe not productively.
See here
GRANT { { SELECT | INSERT | UPDATE | REFERENCES } ( column_name [, ...] )
[, ...] | ALL [ PRIVILEGES ] ( column_name [, ...] ) }
ON [ TABLE ] table_name [, ...]
TO { [ GROUP ] role_name | PUBLIC } [, ...] [ WITH GRANT OPTION ]
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-grant.html
and
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-revoke.html
JD
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