Re: Insufficient locking for ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Vik Fearing <vik(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Insufficient locking for ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES
Date: 2015-06-21 14:45:24
Message-ID: 20150621144524.GF133018@postgresql.org
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Now that I actually check with a non-relation object, I see pretty much
> the same error. So probably if instead of some narrow bug fix what we
> need is some general solution for all object types. I know this has
> been discussed a number of times ... Anyway I see now that we should
> not consider this a backpatchable bug fix, and I'm not doing the coding
> either, at least not now.

Discussed this with a couple of 2ndQ colleagues and it became evident
that MVCC catalog scans probably make this problem much more prominent.
So historical branches are not affected all that much, but it's a real
issue on 9.4+.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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