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Re: DROP OWNED BY fails to clean out pg_init_privs grants

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannuk@google.com>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Noah Misch <nmisch@google.com>
Date: 2024-06-20T18:25:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hannu Krosing <hannuk@google.com> writes:
> Or perhaps we should still also patch pg_dump to ignore the aclentries
> which refer to roles that do not exist in the database ?

I didn't want to do that before, and I still don't.  Given that this
issue has existed since pg_init_privs was invented (9.6) without
prior reports, I don't think it's a big enough problem in practice
to be worth taking extraordinary actions for.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Allow meson builds to run test_pg_dump test in installcheck mode.

  2. Remove recordExtensionInitPriv[Worker]'s ownerId argument.

  3. Improve tracking of role dependencies of pg_init_privs entries.

  4. Fix failure to track role dependencies of pg_init_privs entries.

  5. Drop global objects after completed test