Thread: reindex of toast tables

Tom, when you loosened the restriction on reindexing toast tables, did
you continue to restrict indexing of system tables to the superuser?  Is
that required?

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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Tom, when you loosened the restriction on reindexing toast tables, did
> you continue to restrict indexing of system tables to the superuser?  Is
> that required?

Hm.  Now that I look at it, the forms REINDEX TABLE and REINDEX INDEX
don't seem to have any permissions checks at all :-(.  One would think
that they need to require ownership rights on the target table.
        regards, tom lane

Tom Lane dijo: 

> Hm.  Now that I look at it, the forms REINDEX TABLE and REINDEX INDEX
> don't seem to have any permissions checks at all :-(.  One would think
> that they need to require ownership rights on the target table.

They are done in tcop/utility.c AFAICS.

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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@atentus.com> writes:
> Tom Lane dijo: 
>> Hm.  Now that I look at it, the forms REINDEX TABLE and REINDEX INDEX
>> don't seem to have any permissions checks at all :-(.  One would think
>> that they need to require ownership rights on the target table.

> They are done in tcop/utility.c AFAICS.

Oh, right.  I was just looking at the catalog/index routines.  Nevermind...
        regards, tom lane