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Re: SQL Property Graph Queries (SQL/PGQ)

Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> — 2025-12-08T14:58:59Z

On Mon, Dec 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM Ashutosh Bapat
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> In your commit message:
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> 4. We have not implemented security definer property graphs since
>    SQL/PGQ standard does not mention those.
>
> My reading of the access rules is that, from the caller’s point of
> view, the standard expects behavior that is quite close to
> security-definer semantics -- once the session user has SELECT on the
> property graph, they do not need privileges on the element tables. Is
> that also how you read it, or do you see the standard as intentionally
> leaving room for invoker semantics like you've currently implemented?
>

The standard specifies that in order to reference a property graph in
the query, the query invoker has to have SELECT privileges on the
property graph. I am not able to find a specification which answers:
who's privileges should be used to access the underlying tables. So I
can't say whether it's close to security-definer semantics or not. I
also can not infer any intent. But as I have explained above,
security-definer semantics seem to be too dangerous to implement. But
may be there's some other safe interpretation of standard
specification, which I am missing.

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Best Wishes,
Ashutosh Bapat