Re: pgsql: Further fix privileges on pg_statistic_ext[_data].

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Further fix privileges on pg_statistic_ext[_data].
Date: 2019-06-16 18:50:43
Message-ID: 20190616185043.efldeuen7ccuwvml@development
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On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 03:00:27PM +0000, Tom Lane wrote:
>Further fix privileges on pg_statistic_ext[_data].
>
>We don't need to restrict column privileges on pg_statistic_ext;
>all of that data is OK to read publicly. What we *do* need to do,
>which was overlooked by 6cbfb784c, is revoke public read access on
>pg_statistic_ext_data; otherwise we still have the same security
>hole we started with.
>
>Catversion bump to ensure that installations calling themselves
>beta2 will have this fix.
>
>Diagnosis/correction by Dean Rasheed and Tomas Vondra, but I'm
>going to go ahead and push this fix ASAP so we get more buildfarm
>cycles on it.

Thanks! Appreciated.

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