On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:09:48 +0000,
  Dayo Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible to do the following:
> Disallow permission to write to a table (either by UPDATE or INSERT) but 
> allow EXECUTE permission on a Function that writes to the table ?
> 
> The reason I want to do this is so that I can perform certain checks on 
> the data that is being written before I allow it to be written.

You can use SECURITY DEFINER functions to do this. Those functions run
with the access rights of the function creator, rather than the executor.

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