Thread: trigger or function?

trigger or function?

From
adeon
Date:
Hi,

There are many users in a database I'm making.
There is a table in the database, that has a user_id column.
Every user is able to insert, update or delete a record from this table,
but users are only allowed to execute those operations only on their own
records (that ones that have right user_id). How should be user_id checking
performed - in trigger or should I create a functions for every operation
(insert, delete and update)??


adeon

PS: Sorry for my English...


Re: trigger or function?

From
weigelt@metux.de
Date:
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 02:37:01AM +0200, adeon wrote:

<snip>
> There is a table in the database, that has a user_id column.
> Every user is able to insert, update or delete a record from this table,
> but users are only allowed to execute those operations only on their own
> records (that ones that have right user_id). How should be user_id checking
> performed - in trigger or should I create a functions for every operation
> (insert, delete and update)??

perhaps you run better w/ an rule, which drops unauthorized access ?

CREATE RULE foo_update ON foo AS ON UPDATE TO foo
    WHERE old.user_id <>
    (SELECT usesysid FROM pg_user WHERE usename = current_user)
    DO INSTEAD NOTHING;

CREATE RULE foo_delete ON foo AS ON DELETE TO foo
    WHERE old.user_id <>
    (SELECT usesysid FROM pg_user WHERE usename = current_user)
    DO INSTEAD NOTHING;


i didnt test it, but something like this should work.

cu
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