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From: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
To: Álvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Bertrand Drouvot <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: Chao Li <[email protected]>
Cc: L. pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Fujii Masao <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Ashutosh Bapat <[email protected]>
Cc: Amit Kapila <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Fix unqualified catalog references in psql describe queries
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:04:48 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Mon, 2026-06-15 at 23:21 +0200, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> I am imagining that only database owners would be able to create
> operators.  There isn't any case for allowing that for anybody else,
> ISTM.  How much need is there for "less-trusted" operators, really?

That's probably true in almost all cases. Operators are generally
defined as part of an extension that offers interesting types and
opclasses, and these are C extensions anyway. I haven't ever seen
someone define a convenience operator like they might define a
convenience function.

Perhaps some use it for some clever hacks around unmodifiable
application code or something?

Regards,
	Jeff Davis

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