| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql: Reserve the "pg_" namespace for roles |
| Date: | 2016-04-29 11:51:24 |
| Message-ID: | 20160429115124.GB28792@momjian.us |
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On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 08:56:34PM +0000, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Reserve the "pg_" namespace for roles
>
> This will prevent users from creating roles which begin with "pg_" and
> will check for those roles before allowing an upgrade using pg_upgrade.
>
> This will allow for default roles to be provided at initdb time.
Nice you added the check to pg_upgrade, but I assume a pg_dumpall
restore is going to fail pretty badly, e.g. any pg_* object assignment
will fail. I guess there isn't much we can do to fix that.
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