Hi list, I am currently trying to give normal users some read access to some tables in the database. I also need to give update access to one column of one table. I have the table contact, the user should not be able to read or update anything in it, except for his own record. So I created the view v_my_account. When the user selects * from it he only sees his own record. That works great. I also made a rule: CREATE RULE update_v_my_account AS ON UPDATE TO v_my_account DO INSTEAD UPDATE contact set pause=NEW.pause where username=USER; This does not work since there are some triggers on the contact table and the trigger function selects the contact table and I don't want to give the user access to that. I thought that when a rule is applied the triggers which are triggerd would also have the same userid as the rule query, but I was wrong. Does anyone know a nice workaround? Wijnand (I hope I was clear enough) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq