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by cryptonector 387 days ago
Sounds really good. Your vision is excellent, and I admire it and your work.

BTW, it's very important to get the details of authentication and authorization right. PostgREST does: it validates JWTs and exposes the claims to the SQL application via set_config()s, just like every detail of every request, and it does a `SET` to set the role to whatever the authenticated user is, though this could be done by a SECURITY DEFINER function instead that looks at the claims.

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Real talk.

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/894C0144-5BCC-41C...

set_user extension is AFICT essential for scaling user-per-role.