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by rubber_duck 2111 days ago
Well if you have SQL injection bugs then you have bigger issues to worry about - I've used this to enforce multi-tenancy on database access level (like another poster said - preventing queries accessing wrong data by accident, which is far more common I think).
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A SQL injection bug is (probably) not that big of a deal as long as the tenant boundary isn't crossed. They'd be stealing their own data.
True, I'm just not sure that I'd trust the DB isolation once the user has SQL injection. I never saw a SQL injection report on a project (well since the PHP days) ORMs solved this for the most part, but I did see multiple instances of accidental data leaks from bugs on different projects.

It looks like you could also use SET SESSION AUTHORISATION for this but I haven't used it so I don't know how this works with data access/pooling