Re: My first patch! (to \df output)

Hello

2012/10/27 Jon Erdman <postgresql@thewickedtribe.net>:
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> Hello Hackers!
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> So, currently the only way to see if a function is security definer or not is to directly query pg_proc. This is both irritating, and I think perhaps dangerous since security definer functions can be  so powerful. I thought that rectifying that would make an excellent first patch, and I was bored today here in Prague since pgconf.eu is now over...so here it is. :)
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> This patch adds a column to the output of \df titled "Security" with values of "definer" or "invoker" based on the boolean secdef column from pg_proc. I've also included a small doc patch to match. This patch is against master from git. Comments welcome!
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> I just realized I didn't address regression tests, so I guess this is not actually complete yet. I should have time for that next week after I get back to the states.
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> I would also like to start discussion about perhaps adding a couple more things to \df+, specifically function execution permissions (which are also exposed nowhere outside the catalog to my knowledge), and maybe search_path since that's related to secdef. Thoughts?

I prefer show this in \dt+ for column "Security" - and for other
functionality maybe new statement.

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> This was actually kind of anti-climactic, since it only took about 5 minutes to make the change and get it working. Didn't really feel the way I expected it to ;)
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:) yes, hacking is funny

Regards

Pavel

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