Re: Special role for subscriptions

From: Evgeniy Efimkin <efimkin(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>
Cc: Euler Taveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com(dot)br>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Дмитрий Сарафанников <dsarafan(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>, Владимир Бородин <root(at)simply(dot)name>
Subject: Re: Special role for subscriptions
Date: 2019-03-22 08:06:06
Message-ID: 62501553241966@myt5-68ad52a76c91.qloud-c.yandex.net
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Hi!
> These are basically that the truncate, insert, delete and insert
> rights for the role creating the subscription. Why would we actually
> need that?
It's for security reasons. Because possible to attack target server. If publication have system tables for instance pg_authid

> pg_subscription_users and these should be able to dump subscriptions,
> so you have at least one problem.
But in system_views.sql we give grant on subconninfo column and pg_dump required superuser privilege only for postgesql under 12 version. Old version pg_dump still works but require superuser for dump subscription.

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Efimkin Evgeny

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