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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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Introduction

First set up access rules into the database server. PostgreSQL allows you to control access based upon the host that is trying to connect, using the pg_hba.conf file. You can specify SSL connections if needed, or skip that if the network is secure. You can specify the use of SCRAM authentication using 256 bit keys, as well as many other mechanisms.

Next set up the role and privileges for accessing your data. Databases are mostly used to store data with several restrictions on how it can be used. Some records or tables can only be seen by certain users, and even for those tables that are visible to everyone, there can be restrictions on who can insert new data or change the existing data. All of this is managed by a privilege ...

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ISBN: 9781788474924Supplemental Content