Re: ERROR: argument to pg_get_expr() must come from system catalogs

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ERROR: argument to pg_get_expr() must come from system catalogs
Date: 2010-07-29 23:17:27
Message-ID: 28698.1280445447@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
> We had a report of the above error from a pgAdmin user testing
> 1.12.0b3 with PG 9.0b3. The (highly simplified) query below works fine
> as a superuser:

> SELECT pg_get_expr(proargdefaults, 'pg_catalog.pg_class'::regclass)
> FROM pg_proc pr
> LEFT OUTER JOIN pg_description des ON des.objoid=pr.oid

> Run as a regular user though, we get the error.

I've applied a (rather hurried) patch for this for 9.0beta4.

regards, tom lane

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