Re: User permissions

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: "Lars Preben S(dot) Arnesen" <l(dot)p(dot)arnesen(at)usit(dot)uio(dot)no>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: User permissions
Date: 2002-03-14 15:47:46
Message-ID: 20020314074530.O433-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On 14 Mar 2002, Lars Preben S. Arnesen wrote:

> [ Stephan Szabo ]
>
> > Well, I'm not sure you can using only pl/pgsql, but if you don't grant
> > access to any of the tables, I know that in C you can have functions run
> > queries as a different user.
>
> This sounds interesting. Is there any simple examples for doing stuff
> like this?

Well, it involves SPI stuff and I think there's some docs on that and
examples floating around. In the referential integrity triggers it
sets the user to the owner of the table that it's scanning
(backend/utils/adt/ri_triggers.c) but I wouldn't call that stuff
simple really.

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