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Exporting is one possibility, but eventually I'd like to provide a read-only sql access to the database we host. We have a few ideas on how to do this [1], but

• 15155 11y ago
  Perhaps something like a modified PostgREST could work? https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest
  • jvehent 11y ago
    The problem isn't so much exposing the data as a rest api, as it is allowing for complex queries that may contain various table joins, subqueries or recursive conditions. I only skimmed through the documentation of postgrest, but it doesn't make mention of joining tables, which is a deal breaker for our use case.
    • i336_ 11y ago
      Idea from someone just starting to learn about databases (very green :P): - People request access and get an API key associated with a given load threshold, or don't use an API key and default to some low threshold - Anything that SQL EXPLAIN says is over the threshold returns an error - Successful requests' load costs and execution time (and possibly CPU, if that can be determined) count toward a usage rate limit - An SQL parser implements the subset of SQL you deem safe and acceptable and forms a last-resort firewall Obviously this is a complex solution; I'm curious what people's opinions are on whether this would overall be simpler or more difficult in the long run.