Re: ERROR: argument to pg_get_expr() must come from system catalogs

Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>

From: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-30T08:07:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
>> We had a report of the above error from a pgAdmin user testing
>> 1.12.0b3 with PG 9.0b3. The (highly simplified) query below works fine
>> as a superuser:
>
>> SELECT pg_get_expr(proargdefaults, 'pg_catalog.pg_class'::regclass)
>>   FROM pg_proc pr
>>   LEFT OUTER JOIN pg_description des ON des.objoid=pr.oid
>
>> Run as a regular user though, we get the error.
>
> I've applied a (rather hurried) patch for this for 9.0beta4.

Thanks. Bruce seemed to think it affected 8.4.4 as well - would that
be the case, or is it something else?


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