BUG #14242: Role with a setconfig "role" setting to a nonexistent role causes pg_upgrade to fail

From: bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com
To: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: BUG #14242: Role with a setconfig "role" setting to a nonexistent role causes pg_upgrade to fail
Date: 2016-07-11 22:36:41
Message-ID: 20160711223641.1426.86096@wrigleys.postgresql.org
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The following bug has been logged on the website:

Bug reference: 14242
Logged by: Nathan Bossart
Email address: bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com
PostgreSQL version: 9.5.2
Operating system: 64-bit Linux
Description:

It is possible to modify the "role" setting in setconfig in the
pg_db_role_setting table such that it points to a nonexistent role. When
this is the case, restoring the output of pg_dumpall will fail due to the
missing role.

Steps to reproduce:

1. As superuser, execute "create role foo with login password 'test'"
2. As foo, execute "alter role foo set role = 'foo'"
3. As superuser, execute "alter role foo rename to bar"
a. At this point, the setconfig entry in pg_db_role_setting for
'bar' will contain '{role=foo}', which no longer exists
4. Execute pg_upgrade with the recommended steps in
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/pgupgrade.html

During pg_upgrade (more specifically, during the restore of the output from
pg_dumpall), the "ALTER ROLE "bar" SET "role" TO 'foo'" command generated
will fail with "ERROR: role "foo" does not exist".

This issue was identified by Jordan Lange and Nathan Bossart.

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