Re: BUG #19483: pg_upgrade fails with orphan records in pg_init_priv catalog table

From: Hüseyin Demir <huseyin(dot)d3r(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #19483: pg_upgrade fails with orphan records in pg_init_priv catalog table
Date: 2026-06-22 05:44:45
Message-ID: CAB5wL7ZuFwu2Sd-xmn-w5-BbrKk_Mu_1ubYow_qaqFGhJOiMXw@mail.gmail.com
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Hi,

> Further testing shows that changing this query isn't enough.
> There are three more places where pg_dump queries pg_init_privs
> (in getAggregates, getFuncs and dumpTable).
>
> So we'd have to use a similarly ugly query in all these places,
> which doesn't seem particularly attractive and introduces
> considerable code duplication.
>
> One approach I can think of is to have a macro SAFE_INITPRIVS
> that contains the ugly subquery and is used in all these places.
>
> The other idea is to do some post-processing of the aclitems
> found, but they are in string form and would need to get parsed
> again, which doesn't look attractive either.

Thanks for the feedback.
I created a simple v4 patch to cover your feedback

v4 applies the filter at all four sites where pg_dump queries pg_init_privs:
- getAggregates() — WHERE clause comparison
- getFuncs() — WHERE clause comparison
- getAdditionalACLs() — SELECT expression (object-level initprivs)
- PREPQUERY_GETCOLUMNACLS — SELECT expression (column-level initprivs,
objsubid != 0)

Secondly to avoid duplicating the multi-line subquery at every call
site, I introduced a SAFE_INITPRIVS(col) macro.

I tried to add more clean and detailed comments for future commits but
please let me know if you have additional feedback on it.

Regards,
Demir.

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