Re: PG 18 release notes draft committed

On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 05:53:38PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 02:29:46PM -0700, Noah Misch wrote:
> > I agree with David G. Johnston's feedback on this. My draft didn't mention
> > SECURITY DEFINER, because I consider it redundant from a user's perspective.
> > If a function is SECURITY DEFINER, that always overrides other sources of user
> > identity. No need to mention it each time.
>
> Well, if it is a SECURITY DEFINER function, it is not going to be run as
> the user who is active at commit/execution time, so I think we have to
> specify that.

I came up with this text:

Execute AFTER triggers as the role that was active when trigger
events were queued

Previously such triggers were run as the role that was active at
trigger execution time (e.g., at COMMIT). This is significant
for cases where the role is changed between queue time and
transaction commit.

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