Thread: "Permission denied" on public view

Hi there,

I am working on a db application that allows students to choose 
their courses, so I try to design everything securely. However, it 
seems to be that secure, that users don't have access on a certain 
view, which I don't understand.
To track down and understand the problem, I devised a little model, 
which is supposed to store information about different cars of 
different postgres users:

/* Main Table */
CREATE TABLE data(owner NAME, car TEXT);
CREATE SEQUENCE datalog;
CREATE RULE ins_data AS ON INSERT TO data DOSELECT NEXTVAL('datalog');
GRANT ALL ON datalog TO PUBLIC;

/* Public View */
CREATE VIEW publicdata AS SELECT * FROM data WHERE 
owner = USER;
CREATE RULE ins_publicdata AS ON INSERT TO publicdata DO 
INSTEADINSERT INTO data(owner, car) VALUES(USER, new.car);
GRANT SELECT, INSERT ON publicdata TO PUBLIC;

The datalog sequence is used to detect and track changes in the 
data table. Everything works fine when I use a Postgres superuser, 
for example an insert like:INSERT INTO publicdata(car) VALUES('Ford');

However, when I try the exact same statement with a different user, 
I get the error message:ERROR:  data: Permission denied.

When I remove the ins_data rule, the INSERT works for the other 
users as well. Does the rule need access to the data table? Is this 
a bug or am I doing something wrong?

I appreciate your help, Martin Kresse

> However, when I try the exact same statement with a different user,
> I get the error message:
>  ERROR:  data: Permission denied.
>
> When I remove the ins_data rule, the INSERT works for the other
> users as well. Does the rule need access to the data table? Is this
> a bug or am I doing something wrong?
   Anything  seems  right  for  me.  And I cannot reproduce this   error in the current developers tree (it works as it
should).
   Which version of PG are you using?


Jan

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> > However, when I try the exact same statement with a different user,
> > I get the error message:
> >  ERROR:  data: Permission denied.
> >
> > When I remove the ins_data rule, the INSERT works for the other
> > users as well. Does the rule need access to the data table? Is this
> > a bug or am I doing something wrong?
> 
>     Anything  seems  right  for  me.  And I cannot reproduce this
>     error in the current developers tree (it works as it should).
>
>     Which version of PG are you using?

Today, I installed PG 6.5.3, which behaves exactly the same.
Prior I have been using PG 6.5.1.

Martin