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* pgsql: Revert "Avoid race condition between "GRANT role" and "DROP ROLE
@ 2025-09-16 17:06 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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From: Tom Lane @ 2025-09-16 17:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org

Revert "Avoid race condition between "GRANT role" and "DROP ROLE"".

This reverts commit 98fc31d6499163a0a781aa6f13582a07f09cd7c6.
That change allowed DROP OWNED BY to drop grants of the target
role to other roles, arguing that nobody would need those
privileges anymore.  But that's not so: if you're not superuser,
you still need admin privilege on the target role so you can
drop it.

It's not clear whether or how the dependency-based approach
to solving the original problem can be adapted to keep these
grants.  Since v18 release is fast approaching, the sanest
thing to do seems to be to revert this patch for now.  The
race-condition problem is low severity and not worth taking
risks for.

I didn't force a catversion bump in 98fc31d64, so I won't do
so here either.

Reported-by: Dipesh Dhameliya <dipeshdhameliya125@gmail.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABgZEgczOFicCJoqtrH9gbYMe_BV3Hq8zzCBRcMgmU6LRsihUA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 18

Branch
------
master

Details
-------
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8abbbbae610cd62faad4f9ec18e7cfa908593796

Modified Files
--------------
doc/src/sgml/ref/drop_owned.sgml         |  2 +-
src/backend/commands/user.c              | 23 ++++++-----------------
src/test/regress/expected/privileges.out | 30 ------------------------------
src/test/regress/sql/privileges.sql      | 15 ---------------
4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)



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* pgsql: Revert "Avoid race condition between "GRANT role" and "DROP ROLE
@ 2025-09-16 17:06 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread

From: Tom Lane @ 2025-09-16 17:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org

Revert "Avoid race condition between "GRANT role" and "DROP ROLE"".

This reverts commit 98fc31d6499163a0a781aa6f13582a07f09cd7c6.
That change allowed DROP OWNED BY to drop grants of the target
role to other roles, arguing that nobody would need those
privileges anymore.  But that's not so: if you're not superuser,
you still need admin privilege on the target role so you can
drop it.

It's not clear whether or how the dependency-based approach
to solving the original problem can be adapted to keep these
grants.  Since v18 release is fast approaching, the sanest
thing to do seems to be to revert this patch for now.  The
race-condition problem is low severity and not worth taking
risks for.

I didn't force a catversion bump in 98fc31d64, so I won't do
so here either.

Reported-by: Dipesh Dhameliya <dipeshdhameliya125@gmail.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABgZEgczOFicCJoqtrH9gbYMe_BV3Hq8zzCBRcMgmU6LRsihUA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 18

Branch
------
REL_18_STABLE

Details
-------
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/cc7053a5fe08883801057faa70101dcf99f0d071

Modified Files
--------------
doc/src/sgml/ref/drop_owned.sgml         |  2 +-
src/backend/commands/user.c              | 23 ++++++-----------------
src/test/regress/expected/privileges.out | 30 ------------------------------
src/test/regress/sql/privileges.sql      | 15 ---------------
4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)



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