Re: [GENERAL] Limiting DB access by role after initial connection? - Mailing list pgsql-general

As a follow up to this, a couple more questions from my wishful thinking list:

1) Any way, whether kosher or hacky, to set an arbitrary yet immutable (for the lifetime of the session) variable within a session?  Something akin to DEFINE, which wouldn't allow redefinition?  A temp table that couldn't be dropped? 

2) Same as above, but set by the app before making the connection?  I'd settle for this even if it meant two connections per page.

Either of those would facilitate more fine-grained, per-user access, which would ultimately be better and maybe allow me to skip the creation and management of roles.  Having discovered that the RLS will not apply to all my existing views and I'll need to rewrite them anyway, this seems like a better thing to wish for!

Cheers,

Ken

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