[GENERAL] Authentication blues

2005-07-01 Thread Teunis Peters
I'm working on a PL/SQL set of functions to handle user access restrictions to particular tables and am wondering: - Is it "safe" to use postgresql authentication? Should I (like a LOT of apps do) build my own authentication tables and just use a common login/password for the application?

[GENERAL] rules and table renaming

2005-06-29 Thread Teunis Peters
I'm renaming a table to a live database before it goes REALLY live and ends up on lots of servers. For various reasons I've got various different clients floating around and can't get them all updated synchronously. anyways. How do I make a set of rules to pass insert/update/delete/...

[GENERAL] MacOSX, fink, missing readline/readline.h

2005-06-26 Thread Teunis Peters
This has to do with building postgresql-8.0.3 I'm installing on a MacOSX system (10.3) and configure's failing to find the readline installation. output: checking readline/readline.h usability... yes checking readline/readline.h presence... no configure: WARNING: readline/readline.h: accepted

[GENERAL] users, address record restrictions

2005-06-20 Thread Teunis Peters
king for controlling SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE. I -am- interested in examples of server-side scripting as well... am still searching. Ta! - Teunis Peters ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ?