Re: Major Version Upgrade failure due to orphan roles entries in catalog - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: Major Version Upgrade failure due to orphan roles entries in catalog
Date
Msg-id 58e47d097ed2a1512f47891293a7102d573fc970.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Re: Major Version Upgrade failure due to orphan roles entries in catalog  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Major Version Upgrade failure due to orphan roles entries in catalog
List pgsql-bugs
On Fri, 2025-02-21 at 09:41 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> writes:
> > I have one question about the first patch:
> 
> > > -    if (addroleto || adminmembers || rolemembers)
> > > +    if (addroleto || adminmembers || rolemembers || !superuser())
> > >         CommandCounterIncrement();
> 
> > That change seems unrelated to the problem at hand, and I don't see it
> > mentioned in the commit message.  Is that an oversight you fixed on the
> > fly?
> 
> Well, kinda, because the patch doesn't work without it.  The
> problematic case is where none of those 3 flags are set and also
> !superuser, so that we decide we need the default grant implemented a
> few lines further down.  That grant now has an explicit reference to
> the new roleid, and if we haven't CommandCounterIncrement'ed, the
> pg_shdepend code will error out because it doesn't see the catalog
> entry for roleid.

Thanks for the explanation.  That might be worth a comment.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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