Re: BUG #16279: Permissions doc incorrect for pg_buffercache

Philip Semanchuk <philip@americanefficient.com>

From: Philip Semanchuk <philip@americanefficient.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>, "pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-02-27T21:39:04Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs

> On Feb 27, 2020, at 4:31 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 
> Philip Semanchuk <philip@americanefficient.com> writes:
>> On Feb 26, 2020, at 12:11 PM, Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org> wrote:
>>> You are right, in contrib/pg_buffercache/pg_buffercache--1.2--1.3.sql we have
>>> GRANT EXECUTE ON FUNCTION pg_buffercache_pages() TO pg_monitor;
>>> GRANT SELECT ON pg_buffercache TO pg_monitor;
>>> Not pg_read_all_stats. I'm not sure: we need change the extension or fix the documentation? I think pg_read_all_stats would be more appropriate, but we need bump the extension version.
> 
>> Thanks for exploring and confirming! I agree that pg_read_all_stats would be more appropriate. 
> 
> Looking at the original discussion, it seems clear that the choice of
> pg_monitor was intentional; see in particular
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BOCxowV7eL-DS1Hr-h5N7Tr8Gvn5VGW%2B%2BYJ2yo6wMN9H3n9Gg%40mail.gmail.com
> 
> So I think the code is correct and the documentation is a typo.
> That's a much easier answer to back-patch, as well.

Sounds good to me. Thanks for the context!

Cheers
Philip


Commits

  1. Doc: correct thinko in pg_buffercache documentation.