On 15 November 2013 21:03, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Thom Brown <t...@linux.com> writes: >> Is this unintended, or is it something users should fix themselves by >> being explicit about relation schemas in trigger functions? Should >> the schema search path instead pick up whatever the default would be >> for the user being used for the connection? > > postgres_fdw intentionally runs the remote session with a very minimal > search_path (I think just pg_catalog, in fact). I would argue that > any trigger that breaks because of that is broken anyway, since it > would fail --- possibly with security implications --- if some ordinary > user modified the search path.
That makes sense. Would it be worth putting a note in the documentation about the behaviour of the search path on the postgres_fdw page? -- Thom -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
