This issue is driving me crazy. Could any one please suggest me any workaround?
For summary of issue,
1. I don't want any users to perform any action on mydb schema without using my stored procedure. So I revoke ALL permissions from mydb schema and assigned only USAGE permissions.
2. As my stored procedure allows creating table in mydb schema and users have only USAGE permissions on mydb schama, I have to defined my stored procedure with SECURITY DEFINER so that it allows to create table in mydb schema.
3. To prevent creating unauthenticated foreign references to other tables, I want to make sure that current user has the required permissions to create table before creating table. For this I have to use SET ROLE to current user but it is not allowed in SECURITY DEFINER context.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Dipti
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:51 PM, dipti shah <shahdipti1980@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
No, I tried that but that can't be done in my requirements because my function has to be run in super user context to create the table in schema where normal users have only USAGE permissions. If I remove SECURITY DEFINER then my stored procedure will be failed for all users by saying "permission denied on schema myschema".
Moreover, I want to run only create table code in normal user context and other things in stored procedure should be done in super user context.
I tried all possible ways but couldn't find to get out of this yet.
Thanks,
Dipti
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
dipti shah escribió:
Shouldn't it be the other way around? The normal function calls the
> For your reference I did something like this:
>
> 1. Create Function foo1 .... (this is without SECURITY DEFINER where I am
> using SET ROLE to current user).
>
> 2. Create Function foo2 with SECURITY DEFINER ...
> spi_exe_query("select foo1()"); ==> Here it throws the error.
security-definer one.
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