| From: | "D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain" <darcy(at)druid(dot)net> |
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| To: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> |
| Cc: | Curt Sampson <cjs(at)cynic(dot)net>, PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL? |
| Date: | 2002-08-02 10:46:32 |
| Message-ID: | 20020802064632.A6516@druid.net |
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* Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> [020802 06:32]:
> Your argument can as well be used against VIEWs - whats the point of
> having them, when they can trivially be implemented using ON XXX DO
> INSTEAD rules.
Well, at least on PostgreSQL it makes a difference. We allow views to
have permissions granted to them independent of the underlying tables.
It a nice , distinguishing feature. What other database allows you
to grant one person access to a subset of the colums of a table as
well as a subset of the rows?
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