I'm developing a new application and want to take advantage of postgres features such as triggers and stored procedures and put as much of the middleware 'business logic' into the database engine as is practical. Is it possible, or practical, to validate a potential user login within the database? What I've done in the past is search the User table for that name and password, return it to the application, and have a Python script see if the entered username and password match that stored in the table. All pointers and suggestions welcome. Rich
