Switch user ID to the object owner when populating a materialized view.

Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>

Commit: fb7c0ac42e1a8e3cde74e83e2c758ada8c62a35e
Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Date: 2013-07-12T22:25:41Z
Releases: 9.3.0
Switch user ID to the object owner when populating a materialized view.

This makes superuser-issued REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW safe regardless of
the object's provenance.  REINDEX is an earlier example of this pattern.
As a downside, functions called from materialized views must tolerate
running in a security-restricted operation.  CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW
need not change user ID.  Nonetheless, avoid creation of materialized
views that will invariably fail REFRESH by making it, too, start a
security-restricted operation.

Back-patch to 9.3 so materialized views have this from the beginning.

Reviewed by Kevin Grittner.

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