Re: BUG #16279: Permissions doc incorrect for pg_buffercache

> On Feb 27, 2020, at 4:31 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
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> Philip Semanchuk <philip(at)americanefficient(dot)com> writes:
>> On Feb 26, 2020, at 12:11 PM, Sergei Kornilov <sk(at)zsrv(dot)org> wrote:
>>> You are right, in contrib/pg_buffercache/pg_buffercache--1.2--1.3.sql we have
>>> GRANT EXECUTE ON FUNCTION pg_buffercache_pages() TO pg_monitor;
>>> GRANT SELECT ON pg_buffercache TO pg_monitor;
>>> Not pg_read_all_stats. I'm not sure: we need change the extension or fix the documentation? I think pg_read_all_stats would be more appropriate, but we need bump the extension version.
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>> Thanks for exploring and confirming! I agree that pg_read_all_stats would be more appropriate.
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> Looking at the original discussion, it seems clear that the choice of
> pg_monitor was intentional; see in particular
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> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BOCxowV7eL-DS1Hr-h5N7Tr8Gvn5VGW%2B%2BYJ2yo6wMN9H3n9Gg%40mail.gmail.com
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> So I think the code is correct and the documentation is a typo.
> That's a much easier answer to back-patch, as well.

Sounds good to me. Thanks for the context!

Cheers
Philip