[SQL] Concatenating bytea types...

2013-02-28 Thread Marko Rihtar
Hi all, i have a little problem. I'm trying to rewrite one procedure from mysql that involves bytes concatenation. This is my snippet from postgres code: ... cv1 bytea; ... cv1 := E'\\000'::bytea; ... cv1 := CONCAT(cv1, DECODE(TO_HEX(11), 'escape')); ... this third line throws following error:

[SQL] Need help revoking access WHERE state = 'deleted'

2013-02-28 Thread Mark Stosberg
We are working on a project to start storing some data as soft deleted (WHERE state = 'deleted') instead of hard-deleting it. To make sure that we never accidentally expose the deleted rows through the application, I had the idea to use a view and permissions for this purpose. I thought I could

Re: [SQL] Need help revoking access WHERE state = 'deleted'

2013-02-28 Thread Ben Morrow
Quoth m...@summersault.com (Mark Stosberg): We are working on a project to start storing some data as soft deleted (WHERE state = 'deleted') instead of hard-deleting it. To make sure that we never accidentally expose the deleted rows through the application, I had the idea to use a view

Re: [SQL] Need help revoking access WHERE state = 'deleted'

2013-02-28 Thread Mark Stosberg
On 02/28/2013 01:02 PM, Ben Morrow wrote: Quoth m...@summersault.com (Mark Stosberg): We are working on a project to start storing some data as soft deleted (WHERE state = 'deleted') instead of hard-deleting it. To make sure that we never accidentally expose the deleted rows through the

Re: [SQL] Need help revoking access WHERE state = 'deleted'

2013-02-28 Thread Tom Lane
Mark Stosberg m...@summersault.com writes: # Explicitly grant access to the view. db= grant select on entities_not_deleted to myuser; GRANT # Try again to use the view. Still fails db= SELECT 1 FROM entities_not_deleted WHERE some_col = 'y'; ERROR: permission denied for relation entities

Re: [SQL] Need help revoking access WHERE state = 'deleted'

2013-02-28 Thread Mark Stosberg
On 02/28/2013 02:08 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Mark Stosberg m...@summersault.com writes: # Explicitly grant access to the view. db= grant select on entities_not_deleted to myuser; GRANT # Try again to use the view. Still fails db= SELECT 1 FROM entities_not_deleted WHERE some_col = 'y'; ERROR: