Re: ExecutorCheckPerms() hook

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-05-26T13:50:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> writes:
> Hmm. If both REFERENCES and SELECT privilege are required to create
> a new FK constraint, why RI_Initial_Check() need to check SELECT
> permission prior to SPI_execute()?

> It eventually checks SELECT privilege during execution of the secondary
> query. It is unclear for me why we need to provide a slower fallback.

Because the queries inside the triggers are done with a different
current userid.

			regards, tom lane