Re: allow granting CLUSTER, REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW, and REINDEX

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Ted Yu <yuzhihong@gmail.com>, Pavel Luzanov <p.luzanov@postgrespro.ru>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2023-06-22T03:06:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 10:46:41AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 10:16:24AM -0700, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>>> I think that there is a testing gap with the coverage of CLUSTER.
>>> "Ownership of partitions is checked" is a test that looks for the case
>>> where regress_ptnowner owns the partitioned table and one of its
>>> partitions, checking that the leaf not owned is skipped, but we don't
>>> have a test where we attempt a CLUSTER on the partitioned table with
>>> regress_ptnowner *not* owning the partitioned table, only one or more
>>> of its partitions owned by regress_ptnowner.  In this case, the
>>> command would fail.
>>  
>> We could add something for this, but it'd really just exercise the checks
>> in RangeVarCallbackMaintainsTable(), which already has a decent amount of
>> coverage.
> 
> It seems to me that this has some value for the CLUSTER path, so I
> would add a small thing for it.

Done.

> -       /*
> -        * We already checked that the user has privileges to CLUSTER the
> -        * partitioned table when we locked it earlier, so there's no need to
> -        * check the privileges again here.
> -        */
> +       if (!cluster_is_permitted_for_relation(relid, GetUserId()))
> +           continue;
> I would add a comment here that this ACL recheck for the leaves is an
> important thing to keep around as it impacts the case where the leaves
> have a different owner than the parent, and the owner of the parent
> clusters it.  The only place in the tests where this has an influence
> is the isolation test cluster-conflict-partition.

Done.

-- 
Nathan Bossart
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Commits

  1. Improve privilege documentation for maintenance commands.

  2. Fix cache lookup hazards introduced by ff9618e82a.

  3. Move bool parameter for vacuum_rel() to option bits.

  4. Fix MAINTAIN privileges for toast tables and partitions.

  5. Add grantable MAINTAIN privilege and pg_maintain role.