On Tue, 2023-06-13 at 14:12 -0700, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> I've been reviewing ff9618e lately, and I'm wondering whether it has
> the
> same problem that 19de0ab solved. Specifically, ff9618e introduces
> has_partition_ancestor_privs(), which is used to check whether a user
> has
> MAINTAIN on any partition ancestors. This involves syscache lookups,
> and
> presently this function does not take any relation locks. I did
> spend some
> time trying to induce cache lookup errors, but I didn't have any
> luck.
> However, unless this can be made safe without too much trouble, I
> think I'm
> inclined to partially revert ff9618e, leaving the TOAST-related parts
> intact.
Agreed. Having it work on partition hierarchies is a nice-to-have, but
not central to the usability of the feature. If it's causing problems,
best to take that out and reconsider in 17 if worthwhile.
Regards,
Jeff Davis