Wanted: Want to hide data by using PL/PGSQL functions

From: "Gellert, Andre" <AGellert(at)ElectronicPartner(dot)de>
To: "'pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Wanted: Want to hide data by using PL/PGSQL functions
Date: 2004-07-21 17:32:15
Message-ID: 5CE421247C32BA4EAB74AD3D5E020E28038426EC@muenchen.ep.de
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Hello,
I have following problem:

A user "xy" shouldn't have any rights to a table,
but needs data from the content of the table.
My idea was to setup a PL/PGSQL procedure to fetch the
data from the table, so that the user only is allowed to
access the procedure. I also tried using a SQL function,
but this doesn't work, too.
Working with views may be a solution - or are e.g. cursors
in pl/pgsql the solution ??
The problem i run into is, that although i can read the data
and return it, I can not return more than one row each
function call. Is it possible to return a whole resultset ?

My last try was:

drop function test(int);
create function test(int) returns table_name as '
select * from table_name where column_name1>= $1
order by column_name1;
' language sql;
select * from test(1) ;

The pl/pgsql variant:

drop function test();
CREATE FUNCTION test() RETURNS text AS '
declare
target table_name%ROWTYPE;
begin
select * into target from table_name ;
return target.column_name1 || target.column_name2;
end;
' LANGUAGE plpgsql;
select test();
But in PL/pgsql i am not able to return a cursor or something like this
and I am not able to return more than one row.

So i have got 2 maybe solutions, but none of them works.

Has anyone a hint, how to "hide" original tables and making their data
selectable to some users ? The result really should be a
select a.* , b.* from a,b where a.state!="imgonewild" ....

Thanks in advance,
Andre

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