Re: BUG #9923: "reassign owned" does not change permissions grantor

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Alexey Bashtanov <bashtanov@imap.cc>, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2015-12-17T20:23:04Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 03:21:46PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Backpatching seems fine to me.  I was just concerned if anyone was
> > relying on the existing buggy behavior.
> 
> Seems unlikely.  Even if they are, the potential for catalog corruption
> later seems to trump that argument.
> 
> > We do list this item as a 9.5
> > incompatibility, so the question is whether we can add an
> > incompatibility to back branches:
> 
> >       Fix <link linkend="SQL-REASSIGN-OWNED"><command>REASSIGN OWNED</></>
> >       and <link linkend="SQL-ALTERTYPE"><command>ALTER OWNER TO</></>
> >       to properly update permissions lists (ACLs) when changing ownership of
> >       types, foreign data wrappers, and foreign servers (Bruce Momjian)
> 
> Actually, I guess we should take out that 9.5 release note item altogether
> if we back-patch this.

Yes, that was one of my points.

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Commits

  1. adjust ACL owners for REASSIGN and ALTER OWNER TO