On 12/25/2012 01:51 AM, Philipp Kraus wrote:
Hello,

how can I check if a user is within a group? I use current_user() to get the logged-in 
user, but I have a group "service" and I need a check if the user is member of 
the group


In recent versions of Postgres user and group have been folded into roles. The terms still exist, to roughly mean user=role with login, group=role without login. There are built in functions to work with roles and privileges. See:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/functions-info.html

Table 9-51. Access Privilege Inquiry Functions
...
pg_has_role(user, role, privilege)      boolean does user have privilege for 
role
pg_has_role(role, privilege) boolean does current user have privilege for role

There are more available.

Thanks

Phil



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