On Thu, Jun  5, 2025 at 08:32:44PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Jun  4, 2025 at 05:53:38PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun  4, 2025 at 02:29:46PM -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> > > I agree with David G. Johnston's feedback on this.  My draft didn't 
> > > mention
> > > SECURITY DEFINER, because I consider it redundant from a user's 
> > > perspective.
> > > If a function is SECURITY DEFINER, that always overrides other sources of 
> > > user
> > > identity.  No need to mention it each time.
> > 
> > Well, if it is a SECURITY DEFINER function, it is not going to be run as
> > the user who is active at commit/execution time, so I think we have to
> > specify that.
> 
> I came up with this text:
> 
>       Execute AFTER triggers as the role that was active when trigger
>       events were queued
> 
>       Previously such triggers were run as the role that was active at
>       trigger execution time (e.g., at COMMIT).  This is significant
>       for cases where the role is changed between queue time and
>       transaction commit.

Item added to the incompatibilities section of the release notes.

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