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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Sadeq Dousti <[email protected]>
Cc: Jelte Fennema-Nio <[email protected]>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Cc: David E. Wheeler <[email protected]>
Cc: Artem Gavrilov <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Extension security improvement: Add support for extensions with an owned schema
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2025 17:27:18 -0700
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On Sunday, July 27, 2025, Sadeq Dousti <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> (a) The patch affects DROP EXTENSION in that it drops the schema as well,
> if it's owned by the extension. This needs to be mentioned in the
> documentation. In addition, an extra confirmation (e.g., "This will drop
> schema nnnn as well, do you wish to continue?") when dropping the
> extension might be desired, as the extension schema could contain user
> data (e.g., pg_cron keeps the jobs and their execution details).
>

SQL isn’t interactive in this sense.  There isn’t a way to ask “are you
sure?”.  At best the server can refuse to do something unless additional
options, like “force/cascade” are present in the command.

David J.


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