Hi Jan,
Thanks for the insight, but can you tell me if the PostgreSQL ODBC driver
for Windows works with PostgreSQL 7.0?
thx,
Ted
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Ted Wallingford
Manager of Information Technology
Independence Excavating, Inc.
Precision Environmental Co.
Independence Communications, Inc.
www.indexc.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JanWieck@t-online.de [mailto:JanWieck@t-online.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 10:25 PM
> To: Peter Eisentraut
> Cc: Wallingford, Ted; 'pgsql-admin@postgresql.org';
> pgsql-sql@postgresql.orgg
> Subject: Re: [SQL] Re: [ADMIN] create view security
>
>
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Wallingford, Ted writes:
> >
> > > I am using 6.3 in this case.
> >
> > I'm sorry but that is pre-historic era around here and no one really
> > remembers what the problems might have been back then
> (other than that
> > they were surely plenty). Upgrading might be your best bet
> on all fronts.
>
> You're wrong - I remember, not 100% sure, but good enough.
>
> Just two weeks ago (funny - isn't it) I made a deal with a
> friend, exchanging this old 486/33DLC, 8MB, 1GB portable
> (640x480 gray but onboard SCSI!) with a planimeter (nice
> mechanic tool that fit's perfectly into my sliderule
> collection - that friend collects sliderules too so he knows
> how to get me :-).
>
> That old portable was the computer, most of the rule system
> fixes for v6.4 where developed on. I'm pretty sure that the
> Rule-Owner-Needs-Perm changes where part of it.
>
> The executor is doing a permisson check of the result- and
> all scan relations just before starting the execution. For
> v6.4 (or was THAT in 6.5 - dunno exactly) I added a little
> flag to the rangetable entry that tells "this relation is
> accessed through a view and permissions are already checked".
> Since then, it was the rewriter that checked if the view-
> owner would have the permissions for all relations used by
> the view.
>
> Anyway, upgrading IS the best (if not the only) choice for
> him.
>
>
> Jan
>
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