Re: RLS bug in expanding security quals

From: Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RLS bug in expanding security quals
Date: 2015-10-09 01:13:00
Message-ID: CAJrrPGeHmf2O-+sBeddeKG+pUvzq2JCtStGjqRd-gEix2OAhiQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 3:50 AM, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On 8 October 2015 at 15:05, Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Attached is a simple patch that appears to work, but it needs more
>> testing (and some regression tests).
>>
>
> Here's an updated patch with an extra regression test case that
> triggers the issue.
>
> I've also updated the function comment for expand_security_quals() to
> better explain the situations where it actually has work to do --
> tables with RLS and updates to auto-updatable security barrier views,
> but not SELECTs from security berrier views. This explains why this
> bug doesn't affect security barrier views (UNION ALL views aren't
> auto-updatable), so only 9.5 and HEAD need to be patched.

Thanks for the patch. I didn't find any problem in my test with the patch.

Regards,
Hari Babu
Fujitsu Australia

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