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From: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
To: Mark Dilger <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Non-superuser subscription owners
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 10:08:06 -0800
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On Mon, 2021-11-01 at 10:58 -0700, Mark Dilger wrote:
> It is unclear that I can make ALTER SUBSCRIPTION..OWNER TO
> synchronous without redesigning the way workers respond to
> pg_subscription catalog updates generally.  That may be a good
> project to eventually tackle, but I don't see that it is more
> important to close the race condition in an OWNER TO than for a
> DISABLE.
> 
> Thoughts?

What if we just say that OWNER TO must be done by a superuser, changing
from one superuser to another, just like today? That would preserve
backwards compatibility, but people with non-superuser subscriptions
would need to drop/recreate them.

When we eventually do tackle the problem, we can lift the restriction.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis

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