Re: HIPPA (was Re: Anyone know ...)

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: David Legault <legault(dot)david(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kenneth Downs <ken(at)secdat(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: HIPPA (was Re: Anyone know ...)
Date: 2007-03-10 20:14:33
Message-ID: 20070310201433.GC4037@alvh.no-ip.org
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David Legault escribió:
> That's basically what I've done with my past questions on the ROLE system in
> place. Since roles are global, I wanted it fine grained to the DB level so I
> had to append DB_ in front of each role name and by using current_database()
> inside my functions, I could hide that from the exterior.

Hmm, there used to be a facility to restrict users to specific
databases, enabled by db_user_namespace (not by default).

It seems to still work on 8.2 ...

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