Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> * Since the planner is now depending on Query.hasRowSecurity to be set
>> whenever there are any securityQuals, I put in an Assert about that,
>> and promptly found three places in prepjointree.c and the rewriter where
>> we'd been failing to set it. I have not looked to see if these represent
>> live bugs in existing releases, but they might. Or am I misunderstanding
>> what the flag is supposed to mean?
> They're independent, actually. securityQuals can be set via either
> security barrier view or from RLS, while hasRowSecurity is specifically
> for the RLS case. The reason for the distinction is that changing your
> role isn't going to impact security barrier views at all, while it could
> impact what RLS policies are used. See extract_query_dependencies().
OK. In that case I'll need to adjust the patch so that the planner keeps
its own flag about whether the query contains any securityQuals; that's
easy enough. But I'm still suspicious that the three places I found may
represent bugs in the management of Query.hasRowSecurity.
regards, tom lane
