Re: Triggers after a rule

Wijnand Wiersma wrote:
> I have the table contact, the user should not be able to read or
> update anything in it, except for his own record. So I created the
> view v_my_account. When the user selects * from it he only sees his
> own record. That works great. I also made a rule:
> CREATE RULE update_v_my_account AS ON UPDATE TO v_my_account
> DO INSTEAD
> UPDATE contact set pause=NEW.pause where username=USER;
>
> This does not work since there are some triggers on the contact table
> and the trigger function selects the contact table and I don't want to
> give the user access to that.
>
> I thought that when a rule is applied the triggers which are triggerd
> would also have the same userid as the rule query, but I was wrong.

Can you show the (cut down) contents of your trigger? It's difficult to
see what you mean. I can't think of any way a trigger can provide
results to the user, so any selects within it should be safe enough.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd