trigger or function?

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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