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From: Amit Khandekar <[email protected]>
To: Shin Berg <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Inconsistency in owner assignment between INDEX and STATISTICS
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:37:10 +0530
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On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 at 14:18, Shin Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to raise a small consistency issue between how INDEX and extended STATISTICS handle object ownership, and ask whether aligning them would be desirable.
>
> Current behavior (tested on REL_17_STABLE):
>
> - When a superuser creates an INDEX on another user's table, the index is owned by the *table owner* (see catalog/index.c: index relation's relowner is set from the heap relation's relowner).
> - When a superuser creates STATISTICS on another user's table, the statistics object is owned by the *current user* (statscmds.c: stxowner = GetUserId()).

I will try to divide the problem into two questions:

1. Should the statistics object's owner be permanently associated with
the table owner?



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