From: stan <stanb@panix.com>
To: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Detecting which columns a query will modify in a function called by a trigger
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 15:28:29 -0500
Message-ID: <20200302202829.GA19161@panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30c3c06e-61fa-3210-666d-1696af320a75@aklaver.com>
References: <20200302185904.GA6528@panix.com>
<30c3c06e-61fa-3210-666d-1696af320a75@aklaver.com>
On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:02:54AM -0800, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 3/2/20 10:59 AM, stan wrote:
> > I need to implement a fairly fine grained security model. Probably a bit
> > finer that I can do with the standard ownership functionality.
> >
> > My thinking on this is to create a table that contains the users, and a
> > "permission bit" for each function that they may want to do, vis a vi
> > altering an existing row,or rows, or inserting new rows.
> >
> > Looks relatively straight forward, if fairly time consuming to do. But I
> > would need to know which column(s) a given query would add..alter from the
> > function to implement this via a trigger. looks like I see most of what I
> > need t do this in the docs, but I can't quite figure out if I can get this
> > down to what column(s) a given trigger will modify. Is this possible?
>
> Before you get too far into this I would look at RLS:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/ddl-rowsecurity.html
>
Thanks for pointing that out.
Using that functionality was my original plan, but let me describe why I do not think it
can do what I need. This may be an indication of my weakness in design
though.
Envision a table with a good many columns. This table represents the "life
history" of a part on a project. Some of the columns need to be
created/modified by the engineer. Some need to be created/modified by the
purchasing agent, some of the columns need to be created by the receiving
department, some of the columns need to be created/modified by the accounts
payable department.
Make sense?
--
"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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