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To: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: Ayush Vatsa <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Clarification on Role Access Rights to Table Indexes
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:02:38 -0500
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Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM David G. Johnston
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I have a very vague recollection that we concluded that SELECT
>>> privilege was a reasonable check because if you have that you
>>> could manually prewarm by reading the table. That would lead
>>> to the conclusion that the minimal fix is to look at the owning
>>> table's privileges instead of the index's own privileges.
>> I feel like if you can blow up the cache by loading an entire table into memory with just select privilege on the table we should be ok with allowing the same person to name an index on the same table and load it into the cache too.
> +1.
Is that a +1 for the specific design of "check SELECT on the index's
table", or just a +1 for changing something here?
regards, tom lane
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