Hello Laurenz,

   Thank you for you suggestion. I really want to aviod that someone 
'accidentally' deletes too much by typing (programming) a not full qualified 
DELETE ... statement. In your case one would have to always use the delete 
function, but no restrictions on using the DELETE statement.

 Leif


----- Original Message -----
> Leif Jensen wrote:
> >    If I do "DELETE FROM devicegroup WHERE group=1" I do not want to delete
> >    anything. I only want to
> > delete if I do "DELETE FROM devicegroup WHERE groupid=x AND ctrlid=y AND
> > userid=z". I don't wanna let
> > anyone delete more than 1 row at a time.
> 
> I can't think of a way to do that with a trigger.
> 
> I'd write a
>   FUNCTION delete_devicegroup(groupid integer, ctrlid integer, userid
>   integer)
>     RETURNS void CALLED ON NULL INPUT VOLATILE SECURITY DEFINER
> that enables the user to delete a row and checks that all arguments
> are NOT NULL.  The user doesn't get privileges to DELETE from the table
> directly.
> 
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
> 
> 


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