Re: acessibility for tables

[Willy-Bas Loos <willybas@xxxxxxxxx>]

Do you mean, you want everyone to see the data, but only the "owner" can

I would like to modify not only one field, but rather the whole record.

No problem, only don't let them change the owner
 

I thin NEW is the record of the view with the updated data and OLD the

orginal records (similar to trigger & stored procedure).

yes

I would like to set OLD to NEW if the owner field is correct like:

No need to do that. The UPDATE does this already. If you change NEW, then you are changing what the UPDATE does.

Can I do this with the rule on the view?

You could, but you should definitely look into triggers, like Albe said.

Also, you asked if this is a good idea.
Well, it works. But it is certainly not advisable to use the postgres authorisation system for anything else than postgres. I mean, don't try to use this for a  web site of sorts.
Then there are other ways to do it, if you really just want to make a database. Maybe inheritance could come in handy: a table per user and a parent table with select-only rights for all. (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/ddl-inherit.html)

HTH

WBL

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