Re: [GENERAL] Recursive row level security policy - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joe Conway
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Recursive row level security policy
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Msg-id 0799a5d4-1086-242b-9ae1-cedaa8f053f3@joeconway.com
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Recursive row level security policy  (Simon Charette <charette.s@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: [GENERAL] Recursive row level security policy
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On 12/17/2016 01:01 PM, Simon Charette wrote:
> Thanks a lot Joe, that seems to work!

Good to hear.

> I suppose this works because PostgreSQL cannot introspect the
> get_owner_id procedure to detect it's querying the "accounts" table
> and thus doesn't warn about possible infinite recursion?

Not exactly. RLS does not get applied to the superuser, and the
get_owner_id procedure was 1) SECURITY DEFINER, and 2) created/owned by
postgres. Thus the procedure executes without invoking the RLS policy
and avoids the infinite recursion.

Joe

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