On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 01:48:09PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> writes: > > On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 12:46:41PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Is there any likely use-case for providing separate control flags for the > >> two permission checks? That would require an API change for DefineIndex, > >> making this considerably more invasive, so I'm not pushing for it --- > >> just think it's worth asking the question before proceeding. > > > Good question. I can't think of one. > > Yeah, after some reflection I agree. Basically what we want for the ALTER > TABLE scenario is "ignore *all* permissions checks"; if somebody adds some > other check here in future, it probably also ought to be skipped during > a rebuild. So a single bool ought to be fine.
Right. > Are you intending to back-patch this? It seems like a bug fix --- but not > a very high-priority one, so at this point maybe it should wait till after > the release wraps. Back-patch after wrap sounds good. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
