On 06/27/2013 02:49 AM, Chris Farmiloe wrote:
> So I would think that if this was to go further then "channels" would need
> to be more of a first class citizen and created explicitly, with CREATE
> CHANNEL, DROP CHANNEL etc:
>
> CREATE CHANNEL channame;
> GRANT LISTEN ON CHANNEL channame
So I would think that if this was to go further then "channels" would need
to be more of a first class citizen and created explicitly, with CREATE
CHANNEL, DROP CHANNEL etc:
CREATE CHANNEL channame;
GRANT LISTEN ON CHANNEL channame TO rolename;
GRANT NOTIFY ON CHANNEL channame TO rolen
>> I had a quick play to see what might be involved [attached], and would like
>> to
>> hear people thoughts; good idea, bad idea, not like that! etc
>
> I question the usefulness of allowing listen/notify to be restricted to
> an entire class of users. The granularity of this seems too broad
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 02:44:58AM +0100, Chris Farmiloe wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I find the current LISTEN / NOTIFY rather limited in the context of databases
> with multiple roles. As it stands it is not possible to restrict the use of
> LISTEN or NOTIFY to specific roles, and therefore notificatio
On 05/20/2013 09:54 AM, Chris Farmiloe wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I find the current LISTEN / NOTIFY rather limited in the context of
> databases with multiple roles. As it stands it is not possible to restrict
> the use of LISTEN or NOTIFY to specific roles, and therefore notifications
> (and their pay
In fairness NOTIFY has only had a payload since v9 (maybe 8.4?), and the
issue of trust is mainly tied to data leaking from the payload, so I
suspect I won't be last person to request this as people re-visit NOTIFY :)
...but I totally get your point of course.
My first thought was also that having
Chris Farmiloe writes:
> I find the current LISTEN / NOTIFY rather limited in the context of
> databases with multiple roles. As it stands it is not possible to restrict
> the use of LISTEN or NOTIFY to specific roles, and therefore notifications
> (and their payloads) cannot really be trusted as
