From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Petr Kavan <petr.kavan@marekmicro.cz>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How many views is ok?
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 20:38:00 -0400
Message-ID: <5059.1124066280@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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"Petr Kavan" <petr.kavan@marekmicro.cz> writes:
> Possibility is to create a view for each employee that chooses only his data
> and give employee privileges to this view. But I am not sure if such number
> of views does not have some performance drawbacks or even if postgre can
> support it (I expect i can).
Do you really need more than one view? I'd consider something like
create view emp_view as select * from emp where name = current_user;
This requires that your Postgres usernames match up with something in
the underlying table, of course.
regards, tom lane
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