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From: Ayush Vatsa <[email protected]>
To: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Clarification on Role Access Rights to Table Indexes
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 03:01:41 +0530
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> From a quick test and skim of the relevant
> code, I think your patch is fine, though
Thanks for reviewing.

> And IIUC
> DROP TABLE first acquires a lock on the table and its dependent objects
> (e.g., indexes) before any actual deletions, so AFAICT there's no problem
> with using it in pg_class_aclcheck() and get_rel_name(), either.
True, I have also verified that from [1], hence I think we are safe here.
Maybe we can move ahead with the patch if we can see no other concerns.

[1]
https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/backend/catalog/dependency.c#L398-L430

Thanks,
Ayush Vatsa
SDE AWS


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