Dynamic RLS implementation in PPAS 9.3
In the course of my work at EnterpriseDB, migrating Oracle databases to EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus Advanced Server is a common task. However, now and then we encounter unique situations. While working on a migration project recently, we encountered a new use case for RLS (Row level Security). The customer had a centralized database where it stored a huge number of transactions. These transactions are performed by different business units located in different parts of the world. There are certain types of transactions that should not be visible even if they are being queried by the same company. That is where RLS comes in. With RSL, specific transactions, or kinds of transactions, that can remain visible are mapped back to an attribute in the table. The customer needed the application to authenticate users and set the context for which records in the database become visible for a specific session. In its deployment of Oracle, the customer had used the functions/procedure in t...