On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Webb Sprague <webb.sprague@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Or do it with simple combo boxes if you >> want to limit the users to crippled queries.) > > I want to limit my users to *half* crippled queries -- arbitrary > column lists, where clauses, group by lists, and sort by lists. I > want to make sure that they aren't doing any data modifications nested > inside a where clause or a column definition as a subquery. > Well, setting proper permissions will prevent them from making changes. So I do think the generic "throw a query at the db and turn the result into a table" will probably work ok. As long as you aren't talking millions of rows. You could detect result sets over x number of rows and just give the user a link to download the data in a csv file if it's over that threshold. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
