August 12, 2026 8 min readBy Engineering Team
Fail-Closed Multi-Tenant RLS with PostgreSQL and Drizzle
How to enforce tenant boundaries using transaction-local org context without runtime query pollution.
Why Recipe Truth Matters First
When building an owned food operation, recipe and ingredient truth cannot be postponed. Every portion needs a quantity, unit, wastage assumption, and cost before a menu price can tell the business whether it is actually earning a margin.
The Fail-Closed Security Guarantee
By setting tenant context on transaction boundaries in PostgreSQL, queries cannot accidentally leak cross-organization data even in complex joined queries or background tasks.