On 08.02.2023 21:23, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2023-Feb-08, Amit Langote wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 16:19 Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
>
>>> I think we should also patch ExecCheckPermissions to use forboth(),
>>> scanning the RTEs as it goes over the perminfos, and make sure that the
>>> entries are consistent.
>>
>> Hmm, we can’t use forboth here, because not all RTEs have the corresponding
>> RTEPermissionInfo, inheritance children RTEs, for example.
>
> Doh, of course.
>
>> Also, it doesn’t make much sense to reinstate the original loop over
>> range table and fetch the RTEPermissionInfo for the RTEs with non-0
>> perminfoindex, because the main goal of the patch was to make
>> ExecCheckPermissions() independent of range table length.
>
> Yeah, I'm thinking in a mechanism that would allow us to detect bugs in
> development builds — no need to have it run in production builds.
> However, I can't see any useful way to implement it.
>
Maybe something like the attached would do?
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