On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 03:32:43PM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> Why do we switch to the table owner and use
> SECURITY_RESTRICTED_OPERATION in DefineIndex(), when we will switch in
> index_build (etc.) anyway?
Commit a117ceb added that, and it added some test cases that behaved
differently without that.
> Similarly, why do we switch in vacuum_rel(),
> when it doesn't matter for lazy vacuum and we will switch in
> cluster_rel() and do_analyze_rel() anyway?
It conforms to the "as soon as possible after locking the relation" coding
rule that commit a117ceb wrote into miscinit.c. That provides future
proofing.
