Re: Remove superuser() checks from pgstattuple

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Remove superuser() checks from pgstattuple
Date: 2016-09-05 01:33:30
Message-ID: 26229.1473039210@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2016-09-04 21:09:41 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hm, couldn't we do that automatically? At least in the case where only
>> one base-version script is available?

> You mean determining the baseversion? Hm, yes, that might work. But I'm
> not sure how much we can rely on no earlier scripts being already
> installed or such. Seems like a problem you'd possibly only encounter in
> the field or dirty development environments.

Actually, why would we care? Pick one, with some tiebreaker rules
(shortest update path, for starters). I think nearly all of the
infrastructure for this is already there in extension.c.

regards, tom lane

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