On Mon, 2021-11-01 at 12:50 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> All that said, I wonder if we can have our cake and eat it too. I
> haven't looked into this at all yet and perhaps it's foolish on its
> face, but, could we make CHECKPOINT; basically turn around and just
> run
> select pg_checkpoint(); with the regular privilege checking
> happening?
> Then we'd keep the existing syntax working, but if the user is
> allowed
> to run the command would depend on if they've been GRANT'd EXECUTE
> rights on the function or not.
Great idea! Patch attached.
This feels like a good pattern that we might want to use elsewhere, if
the need arises.
Regards,
Jeff Davis
