Re: Why is MySQL more chosen over PostgreSQL?

D'Arcy Cain <darcy@druid.net>

From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
Cc: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>, PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-02T10:46:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
* Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> [020802 06:32]:
> Your argument can as well be used against VIEWs - whats the point of
> having them, when they can trivially be implemented using ON XXX DO
> INSTEAD rules.

Well, at least on PostgreSQL it makes a difference.  We allow views to
have permissions granted to them independent of the underlying tables.
It a nice , distinguishing feature.  What other database allows you
to grant one person access to a subset of the colums of a table as
well as a subset of the rows?

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