Re: Strange permission problem regarding pg_settings - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joe Conway
Subject Re: Strange permission problem regarding pg_settings
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Msg-id 3FD8B862.9060509@joeconway.com
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In response to Re: Strange permission problem regarding pg_settings  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> This does not surprise me; the original code was just plain buggy.
> I suspect it is applying some completely inappropriate check (like
> checking some other permission bit than UPDATE), so that the apparently
> correct failure is really coincidental, and it still fails when it
> should succeed.  Unfortunately I don't have a running copy of 7.3.2 to
> trace through ...

I saw something similar the other day on my copy of 7.3.2. I'll try to
work through this, but it may be the weekend before I have time to
really dig in.

Joe


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