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- A policy is an expression which is added to the security-barrier
- qualifications of queries which are run against the table the policy is on,
- or an expression which is added to the with-check options for a table and
- which is applied to rows which would be added to the table.
- The security-barrier qualifications will always be evaluated prior to any
- user-defined functions or user-provided WHERE clauses, while the with-check
- expression will be evaluated against the rows which are going to be added to
- the table. By adding policies to a table, a user can limit the rows which a
- given user can select, insert, update, or delete. This capability is also
- known as Row Level Security or RLS.
+ A policy limits the ability to SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE rows
+ in a table to those rows which match the relevant policy expression.
+ Existing table rows are checked against the expression specified via
+ USING, while new rows that would be created via INSERT or UPDATE are
+ checked against the expression specified via WITH CHECK. Generally,
+ the system will enforce filter conditions imposed using security
+ policies prior to qualifications that appear in the query itself, in
+ order to the prevent the inadvertent exposure of the protected data to
+ user-defined functions which might not be trustworthy. However,
+ functions and operators marked by the system (or the system
+ administrator) as LEAKPROOF may be evaluated before policy
+ expressions, as they are assumed to be trustworthy.
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