Tom,
On Sunday, January 3, 2016, Tom Lane <
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
The fine manual says that when row_security is set to off, "queries fail
which would otherwise apply at least one policy". However, a look at
check_enable_rls() says that that is a true statement only when the user
is not table owner. If the user *is* table owner, turning off
row_security seems to amount to just silently disabling RLS, even for
tables with FORCE ROW LEVEL SECURITY.
I am not sure if this is a documentation bug or a code bug, but it
sure looks to be one or the other.
The original reason for changing how row_security works was to avoid a change in behavior based on a GUC changing. As such, I'm thinking that has to be a code bug, as otherwise it would be a behavior change due to a GUC being changed in the FORCE RLS case for table owners.
Thanks,
Stephen
