Re: ON CONFLICT issues around whole row vars,

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 3:53 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
>> I specifically remember discussing this with you off list (on IM,
>> roughly a couple of weeks prior to initial commit). I recommended that
>> we err towards a more restrictive behavior in the absence of any
>> strong principle pushing us one way or the other. You seemed to agree.
>
> I don't think this really is comparable. Comparing this with a plain
> INSERT or UPDATE this would be akin to running RLS on the RETURNING
> tuple - which we currently don't.
>
> I think this is was just a bug.

Maybe that's the problem here; I still thought that we were planning
on changing RLS in this regard, but it actually seems we changed
course, looking at the 9.5 open items list.

I would say that that's a clear divergence between RLS and column
privileges. That might be fine, but it doesn't match my prior
understanding of RLS (or, more accurately, how it was likely to change
pre-release).

If that's the design that we want for RLS across the board, then I'm
happy to defer to that decision.

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Peter Geoghegan