Re: [HACKERS] Role members

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:21:52PM +0400, Akmal Akmalhojaev wrote:
> Hello! I have the following question.

Moving to -general.

> For example I have a role ID1 with members ID2 and ID3.
> Role ID2 has also members ID4 and ID5. It means that roles ID4 and ID5 are
> members of ID1.
> The question: Is there any function in PostgreSQL, that finds all the
> members of role ID1 - even such members, as ID4 and ID5.

Here's a function I've written in SQL:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION get_roles_under(OID)
RETURNS SETOF OID
LANGUAGE sql
AS $$
SELECT
    $1
UNION
SELECT
    member
FROM
    pg_catalog.pg_auth_members
WHERE
    roleid = $1
UNION
SELECT
    get_roles_over(roleid) AS "roleid"
FROM
    pg_catalog.pg_auth_members
WHERE
    roleid IN (
        SELECT
            member
        FROM
            pg_catalog.pg_auth_members
        WHERE
            roleid = $1
    )
$$;

Cheers,
D
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