On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:29:12AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> A cheesy compromise would be to switch userid for default-evaluation
> only if the expression contains any volatile functions. I find this
> idea pretty ugly, but it would allow us to still behave per-spec
> for CURRENT_USER while getting the results we want for nextval().
> (current_user() is marked "stable".)
If the user is specifying the default expression, they can specify
SECURITY DEFINER themselves, yes?
So it's really only the default definition of 'SERIAL' columns for
new tables. SERIAL isn't per-spec, yes? So it could change in 8.2
without problem?
Cheers,
mark
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