Ayush Vatsa <ayushvatsa1810@gmail.com> writes:
>> As it stands, a superuser can prewarm an index (because she bypasses all
>> privilege checks including this one), but nobody else can.
> That's not fully true. Any role can prewarm an index if the role has the
> correct privileges.
Ah, right. An index will have null pg_class.relacl, which'll be
interpreted as "owner has all rights", so it will work for the
table owner too. Likely this explains the lack of prior complaints.
It's still a poor design IMO.
regards, tom lane
