On Mar 28, 2011, at 1:29 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>>> 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.
Note that doesn't work if the user has superuser because it was granted via another role.
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