Re: [ADMIN] hiding metadata information from a user

2011-03-10 Thread Dinesh Bhandary
It is a follow up to my first question. I am still interested in knowing if we can create a pure read only user in postgres, which has no access to system catalogs. The alternative I am thinking is using a separate instance and use dblink or replication tool to refresh data. Do you know if we

[ADMIN] hiding metadata information from a user

2011-03-09 Thread Dinesh Bhandary
Hi All - Please let me know if this is possible to do in postgres. I am creating a read only user, which has limited access to db objects, primarily views. Even though this user can't query data from other db objects it can view the system catalog using pg* views and tables, thereby exposing