Re: Refactor recordExtObjInitPriv()

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Refactor recordExtObjInitPriv()
Date: 2023-01-12 00:04:37
Message-ID: 20230112000437.GA2032194@nathanxps13
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On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 09:56:10AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Refactor recordExtObjInitPriv(): Instead of half a dozen of
> mostly-duplicate conditional branches, write one common one that can handle
> most catalogs. We already have all the information we need, such as which
> system catalog corresponds to which catalog table and which column is the
> ACL column.

This seems reasonable.

> + /* This will error on unsupported classoid. */
> + else if (get_object_attnum_acl(classoid))

nitpick: I would suggest explicitly checking that it isn't
InvalidAttrNumber instead of relying on it always being 0.

> - classoid == AggregateRelationId ||

I noticed that AggregateRelationId isn't listed in the ObjectProperty
array, so I think recordExtObjInitPriv() will begin erroring for that
classoid instead of ignoring it like we do today.

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Nathan Bossart
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