Designing RLS policies you can actually trust
Row Level Security is the backbone of a Supabase app. Here is a mental model for writing policies that are tight and testable.
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RLS turns your database into the security boundary, which is exactly where it belongs.
One table, two audiences
A blog has anonymous readers and one trusted admin. The split is clean:
- anon can
selectonlystatus = 'published' - authenticated can do everything
Keep policies small and named by intent, and always test them from both an anon and a logged-in session before shipping.
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