Re: Data access and user id

From: Richard Broersma <richard(dot)broersma(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Jean-Yves F(dot) Barbier" <12ukwn(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Data access and user id
Date: 2009-11-21 16:24:47
Message-ID: 396486430911210824m79a52999s37fb773f75335581@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Jean-Yves F. Barbier <12ukwn(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> My PB is I just can use triggers with SECURITY DEFINER to do that, thus
> I can't update the field 'user_mod' with user's id because triggers are
> always executed as their owner's id, not caller's id.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/functions-info.html

Notice that there are different user operators to choose from.
current_user ( user ), session_user. I believe that one of those will
give you what you want.

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