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Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add a hook in ExecCheckRTPerms(). - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add a hook in ExecCheckRTPerms().
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Msg-id 28481.1278688190@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add a hook in ExecCheckRTPerms().  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> Strangely, I was looking into removing the ExecCheckRTPerms check
> altogether by forcing plan invalidation when permissions are updated.
> That would be a performance tweak that would render this change useless.

That seems both pointless and wrong.  Permissions checks should happen
at execution time not plan time.
        regards, tom lane

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