Re: Can I check if somebody is superuser in stored procedure?

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Can I check if somebody is superuser in stored procedure?
Date: 2011-03-27 22:05:59
Message-ID: 20110327220559.GF20196@fetter.org
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On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 03:21:18PM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> Hello
>
> Is there some simple possibility to check a rights from stored procedure?

Well, there's the catalog lookup method:

SELECT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM pg_catalog.pg_roles WHERE rolname=$1 AND rolsuper)

Is that what you had in mind?

Cheers,
David.
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