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From: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Ayush Vatsa <[email protected]>
Cc: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Clarification on Role Access Rights to Table Indexes
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:34:45 -0500
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ayush Vatsa <[email protected]> writes:
> >> As it stands, a superuser can prewarm an index (because she bypasses all
> >> privilege checks including this one), but nobody else can.
>
> > That's not fully true. Any role can prewarm an index if the role has the
> > correct privileges.
>
> Ah, right.  An index will have null pg_class.relacl, which'll be
> interpreted as "owner has all rights", so it will work for the
> table owner too.  Likely this explains the lack of prior complaints.
> It's still a poor design IMO.

I'm not sure if I'd call that a "design". Sounds like I just made a
mistake here.

-- 
Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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