On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 11:09 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > Strangely, I was looking into removing the ExecCheckRTPerms check
> > altogether by forcing plan invalidation when permissions are
> updated.
> > That would be a performance tweak that would render this change
> useless.
>
> I don't see how you could remove ExecCheckRTPerms..? It's what
> handles
> all permissions checking for DML (like, making sure you have SELECT
> rights on the table you're trying to query). I could see forcing plan
> invalidation when permissions are updated, sure, but that doesn't mean
> you can stop doing them altogether anywhere. Where would you move the
> permissions checking to?
I apologise, when I said removing the check altogether, I meant removing
from the executor path.
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