Re: WIP patch (v2) for updatable security barrier views - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Craig Ringer
Subject Re: WIP patch (v2) for updatable security barrier views
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Msg-id 0MdLIx-1WG5S30OWZ-00ITF2@mrelayeu.kundenserver.de
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Responses Re: WIP patch (v2) for updatable security barrier views  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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> > Am I right in thinking that the "locking gotcha" only happens if you
> > create a security_barrier view conaining a "SELECT ... FOR UPDATE"? If
> > so, that seems like rather a niche case - not that that means we
> > shouldn't warn people about it.
>
> Hmm, the 'gotcha' I was referring to was the issue discussed upthread
> around rows getting locked to be updated which didn't pass all the quals
> (they passed the security_barrier view's, but not the user-supplied
> ones), which could happen during a normal 'update' against a
> security_barrier view, right?  I didn't think that would require the
> view definition to be 'FOR UPDATE';

It doesn't require the view to be defined FOR UPDATE.

I'll try to write an isolstiontester case to donstrate this on the weekend.

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