Re: [PATCH] pg_permissions

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Joel Jacobson <joel(at)compiler(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pg_permissions
Date: 2021-03-26 10:30:37
Message-ID: 20210326103037.GA5136@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2021-Mar-26, Joel Jacobson wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021, at 17:51, Tom Lane wrote:

> > I wonder what performance will be like with lots o' objects.
>
> I guess pg_get_acl() would need to be implemented using a switch(classid) with 36 cases (one for each class)?

No, we have a generalized object query mechanism, see objectaddress.c

> Is your performance concern on how such switch statement will be optimized by the C-compiler?

I guess he is concerned about the number of catalog accesses.

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