Re: GRANT ROLE and triggers

Claudio Rossi wrote:
> Hello, I'm trying to write a trigger function which uses GRANT ROLE
> statement. Scenario is: I have a group role (let's call it A) which
> has not superuser privileges and I want to grant A membership to
> current user after an insert on a particular table, then revoke it
> after a delete on it; I write trigger function as superuser then I
> normally login as unprivileged user. 

I think you want to define your function as SECURITY DEFINER, then it'll 
do what you want.

This isn't a hackers question by the way, the hackers list is for 
developing PostgreSQL itself. This question is better suited to the 
general / sql / admin lists perhaps.

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