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From David Fetter
Subject Re: Can I check if somebody is superuser in stored procedure?
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Msg-id 20110327220559.GF20196@fetter.org
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In response to Can I check if somebody is superuser in stored procedure?  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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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?

Cheers,
David.
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