Re: Securing records using linux grou permissions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ron
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In response to Re: Securing records using linux grou permissions  (David Gauthier <davegauthierpg@gmail.com>)
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It can be done, but you'd need much tighter integration with the OS, which would probably lock you in to only one platform ("Unix", not just Linux).

On 10/15/19 12:10 PM, David Gauthier wrote:
Ok, thanks. 
I was hoping there was a way to integrate the user/permissions/groups in linux with the PG permissions functionality. 

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 12:32 PM Michael Lewis <mlewis@entrata.com> wrote:
It sounds like you want row level security-

But, you will need to define separate roles on the database and ensure that the users and connecting with separate roles. The db can't magically know about the permissions on the OS side.

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