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Miranda LimonczenkoandClaude Opus 5 6368f00ca0 docs(database): restructure the RLS guide by information type (#49017)
## Problem

The guide alternated between context, procedure, and reference on almost
every heading. A reader who wanted to write a policy passed through four
context or reference sections to reach one. A reader who wanted the
model had to skip three procedures.

## Solution

- Group into three sections by information type: `Understand Row Level
Security`, `Secure a table with RLS`, and `RLS reference`, with a
navigation intro.
- Merge the four policy sections. They repeated the same setup block,
burying the clause that differed. One setup block now precedes four
short policy examples.
- Move the auto-enable recipe into `event-triggers.mdx`, whose stub
section's entire body was a link back here.
- Relocate the stranded `auth.uid()` caution into the `auth.uid()`
reference.
- Lift the revoke-and-grant procedure out of the danger admonition and
merge it with the two other places that taught `enable row level
security`.
- Point the Grafana IO chart entry at the performance guide. Its
`#rls-performance-recommendations` anchor went away when tuning split
out in #49016.

765 lines to 582. 30 headings to 25.

Headings are demoted rather than renamed wherever anything links to
them. Every inbound anchor in the repo still resolves; the only one
removed, `#auto-enable-rls-for-new-tables`, was referenced solely by the
`event-triggers.mdx` stub this PR replaces.

## Note on the history

Rebuilt from `master` after #49011, #49015, and #49016 merged. The
branch previously carried those 10 commits plus rebase churn against
them.

Rebasing naively would have reverted review feedback from #49016
(`70fa812`), which removed the benchmarks table and the "This guide"
opener from the performance guide. Those are deliberately not restored
here. The only changes to that file are two missing `await`s and a join
predicate that was a tautology while unqualified.

The three PRs stacked on this one (#49268, #49269, #49270) have been
rebased onto the new base.

## Manual testing

1. Open the [Row Level Security
guide](https://docs-git-docs-rls-restructure-supabase.vercel.app/docs/guides/database/postgres/row-level-security)
on the preview. Three top-level sections appear in the table of
contents.
2. Select each link in the intro. All three jump to their section.
3. Open [Event
triggers](https://docs-git-docs-rls-restructure-supabase.vercel.app/docs/guides/database/postgres/event-triggers).
The auto-enable section holds the full recipe instead of a link.
4. Open the [performance
guide](https://docs-git-docs-rls-restructure-supabase.vercel.app/docs/guides/database/postgres/row-level-security-performance).
No benchmarks table, and the three bullets at the top link into the RLS
guide.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
* Reworked the Row Level Security guide with clearer guidance on grants,
policies, permissions, performance, testing, views, and secure
functions.
* Added a complete example for automatically enabling RLS on newly
created public tables.
* Improved SQL examples and clarified table references in RLS
performance guidance.
* Corrected grammar in the Grafana chart troubleshooting documentation.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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