Re: [GENERAL] Access rescrictions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Access rescrictions
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.20.9912142358520.5253-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Access rescrictions  (Elmar.Haneke@gmx.de)
Responses RE: [GENERAL] Access rescrictions
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On 1999-12-14, Elmar.Haneke@gmx.de mentioned:

> I'm looking for an solution to restrict the access to show an part of an Table only:
> In an customer-database it should be possible to list the bills of an certain customer,
> but it should be restricted to generate/summarize a list of all bills.
>
> "SELECT * FROM Bills"  should be restricted
> "SELECT * FROM Bills WHERE CustomerID=?" should be allowed for any CustomerID.
>
> Is there an solution to this problem in PostgreSQL?

No. I think hardly any database engine will be able to restrict access
according to query semantics. You will have to do this via your client
application.

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