--- title: Is Postgres RLS for Everything and Everyone? | daily.dev description: Postgres Row-Level Security (RLS) is a powerful but complex tool for authorization. While it can protect against cross-tenant data leaks in multi-tenant apps,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/is-postgres-rls-for-everything-and-everyone--415y1ixnc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Is Postgres RLS for Everything and Everyone? | daily.dev og:description: Postgres Row-Level Security (RLS) is a powerful but complex tool for authorization. While it can protect against cross-tenant data leaks in multi-tenant apps,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/is-postgres-rls-for-everything-and-everyone--415y1ixnc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/415Y1ixnc.png og:image:alt: Is Postgres RLS for Everything and Everyone? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Is Postgres RLS for Everything and Everyone? **[Neon](https://daily.dev/sources/neontech)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Postgres Row-Level Security (RLS) is a powerful but complex tool for authorization. While it can protect against cross-tenant data leaks in multi-tenant apps, expressing an entire authorization model with RLS is challenging due to dense syntax, infinite recursion pitfalls, confusing permissive vs. restrictive policy behavior, security_invoker complexity, and difficulty testing. A hybrid approach is recommended: use RLS for core tenant isolation checks, but rely on higher-level frameworks like CASL for complex authorization logic. Neon's Data API (formerly Neon RLS) and Drizzle ORM integration can simplify RLS policy writing. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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