Re: Add regression coverage for REVOKE ADMIN OPTION

Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>

From: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Date: 2021-11-16T14:32:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

> On Nov 16, 2021, at 6:31 AM, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
> 
>> On 16 Nov 2021, at 00:58, Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> 
>> While working on a fix for dangling references to dropped roles in the pg_auth_members.grantor field, I happened to notice we entirely lack regression test coverage of the REVOKE ADMIN OPTION FOR form of the RevokeRoleStmt.  I am unaware of any bugs in the current implementation, but future work on roles may benefit if we close the testing gap.
> 
> LGTM.  Reading this I realized that the GRANTED BY keyword for RevokeRoleStmt
> isn't working as documented, it's not checking the role at all.  I've sent a
> diff for that with tests on the relevant thread, but I think it would be a good
> to get this in too to boost coverage.

Thanks for the review!

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Mark Dilger
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Commits

  1. Add test for REVOKE ADMIN OPTION