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

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Can I check if somebody is superuser in stored procedure?
Date: 2011-03-28 06:29:28
Message-ID: AANLkTi=X297bB2GwaW4hPREd3+DZsfXSxxjjyrTYW3Sm@mail.gmail.com
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Hello

2011/3/28 David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>:
> 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?

I found this too, but it isn't what I searched - I searched a some
exported function based on internal cache.

For my purpose is this solution enough.

Regards

Pavel

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