Re: Security Definer functions no longer works in PG14+

Hi,

The aiven-extras repo has a workaround for that, using dblink:
https://github.com/aiven/aiven-extras/commit/eb8c1107ca91a7da5ecb0c8127c94ce42762881d

Jan

On Thu, 5 May 2022, 17:49 Jobin Augustine, <jobinau(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hello Community and Hackers,
>
> A function like:
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION fn_sql_refresh() RETURNS void AS $$
> ALTER SUBSCRIPTION sub REFRESH PUBLICATION;
> $$ LANGUAGE SQL SECURITY DEFINER;
>
> Works with PostgreSQL 13 and older versions.
> But gives error on PostgreSQL 14 as follows:
>
> postgres=> select fn_sql_refresh();
> ERROR: ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... REFRESH cannot be executed from a function
> CONTEXT: SQL function "fn_sql_refresh" statement 1
>
> I believe, this is a consequence of :
>
> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;h=ce0fdbfe9722867b7fad4d3ede9b6a6bfc51fb4e
>
> But it is hurting good operational use cases of logical replication.
>
> Regards,
> Jobin.
>