Re: Webappication and PostgreSQL login roles

No idea??

Thorsten Kraus schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I designed a Java web application. The persistence layer is a
> PostgreSQL database. The application needs user authentication.
> I think it's a good choice to implement this authentication mechanism
> via PostgreSQL login roles. So I can create several database login
> roles and set the database permissions to this login roles. This is my
> first project with the postgres database, so I don't know how I can
> validate a login from the website. Is there a best practice to do this
> or does PostgreSQL offers a stored procedure like
> 'authenticateUser(String username, String password)'?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Bye,
> Thorsten
>
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