Re: pgsql: Revoke PUBLIC CREATE from public schema, now owned by pg_databas

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 12:52:39PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> writes:
> > Revoke PUBLIC CREATE from public schema, now owned by pg_database_owner.
>
> I've just stumbled across a testing problem created by this commit:
> if you try to skip the tablespace test, the rest of the run falls
> over, because this bit doesn't get executed:
>
> -- Rest of this suite can use the public schema freely.
> GRANT ALL ON SCHEMA public TO public;
>
> Skipping the tablespace test is something I've been accustomed to do
> when testing replication with the standby on the same machine as the
> primary, because otherwise you've got to fool with keeping the
> standby from overwriting the primary's tablespaces. This hack made
> that a lot more painful.
>
> I'm inclined to think the cleanest fix is to move this step into a
> new script, say "test_setup.sql", that is scheduled by itself just
> after tablespace.sql.

I like that solution for your use case.

> It's sort of annoying to fire up a psql+backend
> for just one command, but perhaps there's other stuff that could be
> put there too.

Yes. The src/test/regress suite would be in a better place if one could run
most test files via a schedule containing only two files, the setup file and
the file of interest. Adding things like the "CREATE TABLE tenk1" to the
setup file would help that.