On May 21, 2007, at 8:25 AM, David Fetter wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:21:52PM +0400, Akmal Akmalhojaev wrote:
>> 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 $$
> SELECT
> $1
> UNION
> SELECT
> member
> FROM
> pg_catalog.pg_auth_members
> WHERE
> roleid = $1
> UNION
> SELECT
> get_roles_over(roleid) AS "roleid"
> FROM
> pg_catalog.pg_auth_members
> WHERE
> roleid IN (
> SELECT
> member
> FROM
> pg_catalog.pg_auth_members
> WHERE
> roleid = $1
> )
> $$;
Should that call to get_roles_over be a call to get_roles_under?
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