Re: CREATE POLICY and RETURNING

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CREATE POLICY and RETURNING
Date: 2014-10-17 12:34:40
Message-ID: 20141017123440.GB2075@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2014-10-17 14:57:03 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 10/17/2014 02:49 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> > I think you could probably make the DELETE policy control what can get
> > deleted, but then have the SELECT policy further filter what gets
> > returned.
>
> That seems like the worst of both worlds to me.
>
> Suddenly DELETE ... RETURNING might delete more rows than it reports a
> resultset for. As well as being potentially dangerous for people using
> it in wCTEs, etc, to me that's the most astonishing possible outcome of all.
>
> I'd be much happier with even:
>
> ERROR: RETURNING not permitted with SELECT row-security policy

FWIW, that doesn't sound acceptable to me.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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