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From: Juan Cuervo (Quality Telecom) <juanrcuervo@quality-telecom.net>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: revoked permissions on table still allows users to see table's structure
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:24:23 -0500
Message-ID: <4E297A07.9090907@quality-telecom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOR=d=1Zoo6K55wfkBpb_rx2Jb2ox_Lp5WBN1dGmYMLD3x=ADg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Scott

Thanks for your answer.

It should be a way to prevent this from normal users who only need 
access to a set of tables, a view or even a store procedure. (Maybe a 
VIEW_SCHEMA privilege of roles?). View a table's structure should only 
be allowed to users who has at least one privilege on the table.

It doesnt make much sense to me that every user with access to the 
database , would be able to see the whole database design.

Do you know if this is common in other RDBMS ?

Regards,

Juan R. Cuervo Soto
Quality Telecom Ltd
www.quality-telecom.net
PBX : (575) 3693300
CEL : (57)  301-4174865


El 21/07/2011 08:48 p.m., Scott Marlowe escribió:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Juan Cuervo (Quality Telecom)
> <juanrcuervo@quality-telecom.net>  wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> I'm new to the list, but have a few years as postgres user. I want to share
>> what I consider a rare behavior of postgresql regarding database object's
>> premissions:
>>
>> I have noticed that there is no way (at least no one I know) to prevent a
>> user from seeing the table's structures in a database.
>>
>> Is this a normal behavior of the product ?
> Yep.  Completely normal.
>
>> Is there a way to prevent a user from seeing my table's, procedure's and
>> function's code ?
> Don't let them connect to the db?  That's all I can think of.
>



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