On 2018-Aug-17, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I Initially pointed out here[1] that running REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW as a
> non-superuser or table owner yields the following message:
>
> test=> REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW blah;
> ERROR: must be owner of relation blah
>
> The error message should say "...owner of materialized view..."
>
> The attached patch corrects this by setting the "relkind" for the
> REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW command to be "OBJECT_MATVIEW" so that the aclcheck
> returns the appropriate error message. The updated patch can be tested as such:
>
> CREATE ROLE bar LOGIN;
> CREATE TABLE a (x int);
> CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW b AS SELECT * FROM a;
> \c - bar
> REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW b;
> ERROR: must be owner of materialized view b
>
> I'm happy to generate the backpatches for it but wanted to receive feedback
> first.
Maybe add your test to some regress/ file?
As it is cosmetic, my inclination would be not to backpatch it.
However, I don't quite see how this patch can possibly fix the problem,
since the new struct member is not used anywhere AFAICT.
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