Hi PostgreSQL Community,
I am currently exploring the behavior of pg_prewarm and encountered an issue related to role
access rights that I was hoping you could help clarify.
Here is the scenario I observed:
postgres=# CREATE ROLE alpha;
CREATE ROLE
postgres=# GRANT SELECT ON pg_class TO alpha;
GRANT
postgres=# SET ROLE alpha;
SET
postgres=> SELECT pg_prewarm('pg_class');
pg_prewarm
------------
14
(1 row)
postgres=> SELECT pg_prewarm('pg_class_oid_index');
ERROR: permission denied for index pg_class_oid_index
postgres=> RESET ROLE;
RESET
postgres=# GRANT SELECT ON pg_class_oid_index TO alpha;
ERROR: "pg_class_oid_index" is an index
Based on this, I have few questions:
1. Can a role have access rights to a table without having access to its index?
2. If yes, how can we explicitly grant access to the index?
3. If no, and the role inherently gets access to the index when granted access to the table, why
does the pg_prewarm call fail [1] in the above scenario?
[1] https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/contrib/pg_prewarm/pg_prewarm.c#L108-L110
Regards,
Ayush Vatsa
SDE AWS
