On 1/28/09, Hermann Muster <Hermann(dot)Muster(at)gmx(dot)de> wrote:
> When creating a view via DBLINK, the user=... and password=... parameters
> shall be optional. If they are left out, then the current user accessing the
> view shall be impersonated implicitely to the "dblinked" database as well.
> Forcing anybody to hardcode a password readable within the view definition
> should be an absolute DON'T!
>
> Haven't found a better place to post this request. Hope the author of
> dblink is reading it here, too. :-)
I think this will be properly fixed by SQL-MED connection handling in 8.4.
In older version maybe you can use wrapper function around dblink
that constructs per-user connect string.
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marko