On 13-4-2011 13:13, Alex Peshkoff wrote:
>  On 04/13/11 14:55, Kjell Rilbe wrote:
>> But, all things considered, I feel that the feature is too complicated 
>> and has too many security implications to be worth it. If anything, I 
>> might suggest that the alias config that's already present could be 
>> augmented with a flag for each alias specifying if it should be 
>> available for browsing or not (default = no). Those marked as available 
>> for browsing could be accessible via an API function for that specific 
>> purpose.
>>
> 
> This is quite reasonable option.
Would be fine for me, too, but I suppose you'd have about the same
security risk compared to a virtual table/view: you could set
permissions on a virtual table/view too I suppose, and couple that to
Kjell's idea for flags in aliases.conf.

Regardless, I would appreciate a reasonable way to get this info. If
having this in an API would be easier/more elegant than a system view,
that's fine with me.

In any case, Kjell's suggestion to extend aliases.conf would be quite
clear, and allow granular administration as well! This will remove the
need to have an extra option in firebird.conf.

-- 
Regards,

jb

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