Re: pgsql: Superuser can permit passwordless connections onpostgres_fdw - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: pgsql: Superuser can permit passwordless connections onpostgres_fdw
Date
Msg-id 20191221021806.GA15758@paquier.xyz
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: pgsql: Superuser can permit passwordless connections on postgres_fdw  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Superuser can permit passwordless connections on postgres_fdw
List pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 02:42:22PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Concretely, I think we ought to do (and back-patch) the attached.

Thanks for the fix, I have not been able to look at that.

> I notice in testing this that the "nosuper" business added by
> 6136e94dc is broken in more ways than what the buildfarm is
> complaining about: it leaves the role around at the end of the
> test.  That's a HUGE violation of project policy, for security
> reasons as well as the fact that it makes it impossible to run
> "make installcheck" twice without getting different results.

Roles left behind at the end of a test are annoying.  Here is an idea:
make pg_regress check if any roles prefixed by "regress_" are left
behind at the end of a test.  This will not work until test_pg_dump is
cleaned up, just a thought.
--
Michael

Attachment

pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: "Bossart, Nathan"
Date:
Subject: Re: archive status ".ready" files may be created too early
Next
From: Michael Paquier
Date:
Subject: Re: Hooks for session start and end, take two