Re: Automating access grants

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Kynn Jones <kynnjo(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Automating access grants
Date: 2007-03-15 12:25:43
Message-ID: 20070315122543.GV31937@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Kynn Jones (kynnjo(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> On 3/15/07, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> >* Kynn Jones (kynnjo(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
>
> >One big question I have is, is this completely read-only?
>
> Sorry, I should have made this clear: the access we had in mind is
> strictly read-only, and only a subset of the tables at that.

Then I would definitely encourage setting up a webpage to provide the
information.. There's no need to grant access to the database directly,
and for that matter it'll probably be easier for your *users* to get the
data in a portable format directly rather than having to install
something which can talk the PG protocol.

Enjoy,

Stephen

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