But that is a property of just regular views not necessarily security_barrier right? i.e. "to be able to hide certain columns".
> Please don't top-post. My bad, to be honest I don't understand how I can reply to different paragraphs in a more structured way. Are there guidelines/examples on the pg docs about this rule? Best regards, Steve On Wed, 28 Jan 2026 at 15:28, Laurenz Albe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2026-01-28 at 14:19 -0500, Steve Chavez wrote: > > CMIIW, but wasn't security_barrier a mechanism to do RLS before actual > RLS (policies) were introduced? So in a way aren't they superseded by RLS? > > I wouldn't say so. > > Creating a view that allows a user to see only certain columns of a table > is something quite different from restricting the rows a user can operate > on. > > Yours, > Laurenz Albe >
