Re: Is a SERIAL column a "black box", or not?

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 11:18:13AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> mark@mark.mielke.cc writes:
> > If the user is specifying the default expression, they can specify
> > SECURITY DEFINER themselves, yes?
> Not unless they write a wrapper function to be a security definer
> and call nextval().

Ah. I was wondering about that. When I saw the first poster tag
'SECURITY DEFINER' on the end of the expression I assumed it was
something that I didn't know you could do... :-)

mark

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