Creating views to show specific spatial data [POSGIS POSTGRES QGIS VIEWS]
Hello everyone, Sometimes as database managers we need to show only specific data for security or for whetever reason . In this case we are talking about showing geometry that are stored in two (relational) tables the problem remains in not showing the area , descripcion and id_user fields of state table . Fig 1. Tables Solution: 1) Create view, 2) Create role, 3)Setup in QGIS First thing is to create a view, note that is important to add the objectid column otherwise QGIS is going to get an error. CREATE VIEW view_state AS SELECT sg.id_state_geom AS objectid, COALESCE(s.name, 'NO NAME'::character varying) AS name, FROM (state_geom sg LEFT JOIN state s ON ((sg.id_state = s.id_state))) ORDER BY sg.id_state Second step is create a role wich be attached to the view and only to the view. CREATE ROLE xxx WITH L...