| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> |
| Cc: | Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: REINDEX and shared catalogs |
| Date: | 2018-08-08 18:28:20 |
| Message-ID: | 20180808182820.kbaglejfgzwothsq@alvherre.pgsql |
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On 2018-Aug-05, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Attached is a set of patches I proposed on the original thread, which
> skips shared catalogs if the user running REINDEX is not an owner of
> it. This is a behavior change, and as I have a hard time believing that
> anybody can take advantage of the current situation, I would like also
> to see this stuff back-patched, as anybody doing shared hosting of
> Postgres is most likely fixing the hole one way or another. However, I
> am sure as well that many folks here would not like that.
I agree that it would be good to have it fixed in released versions, but
I also agree that such a change could cause trouble in production for
some. Is the "no backpatch" idea that you will push this to both pg11
and master? That would get my vote.
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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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