Granting Access to Views
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To a user, a view looks—and often acts—just like a table. However, there are significant differences: the contents of a view are not stored anywhere in the database. All that is stored is the query on the underlying base tables. Because of this, any UPDATE, DELETE, INSERT to a view is actually a write to the table on which the view is based.
Any view that is based on a join or an aggregate is considered to be a read-only view, since it is not directly update-able. Views that are based on a single table which have no aggregates or reflexive joins are often update-able. See Types of Views: Read-only and Update-able for more information about this topic.
Important:
It is meaningful to grant
It is meaningful to grant
INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE privileges for a view only if the view is update-able. Although you can grant the privileges to a read-only view without receiving an error message, any actual write operation fails because the view is read-only. SELECT privileges can be granted on a view just as they are on a table, since reading data from a view does not change anything.You cannot assign REFERENCES privileges to views.
Tip:
If you are creating a view for which you plan to grant
If you are creating a view for which you plan to grant
INSERT and UPDATE privileges, use the WITH CHECK OPTION constraint so that users can update only base table rows that are accessible through the view.