Re: Multivariate MCV stats can leak data to unprivileged users

From: Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Multivariate MCV stats can leak data to unprivileged users
Date: 2019-06-15 23:24:28
Message-ID: 20190615232428.eljebxllgkrxt72b@development
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 07:37:45PM +0200, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> ...
>
>OK, attached are patches fixing the issues reported by you and John
>Naylor, and squashing the parts into just two patches (catalog split and
>pg_stats_ext). Barring objections, I'll push those tomorrow.
>
>I've renamed columns in the _data catalog from 'stx' to 'stxd', which I
>think is appropriate given the "data" in catalog name.
>
>I'm wondering if we should change the examples in SGML docs (say, in
>planstats.sgml) to use the new pg_stats_ext view, instead of querying the
>catalogs directly. I've tried doing that, but I found the results less
>readable than what we currently have (especially for the MCV list, where
>it'd require matching elements in multiple arrays). So I've left this
>unchanged for now.
>

I've pushed those changes, after adding docs for the pg_stats_ext view.

regards

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