Re: Extension ownership and misuse of SET ROLE/SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Extension ownership and misuse of SET ROLE/SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION
Date: 2020-05-19 15:34:57
Message-ID: 32076.1589902497@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
>> On 13 Feb 2020, at 23:55, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Given the current behavior of SET ROLE and SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION,
>> I don't actually see any way that we could get these features to
>> play together.

> Is this being worked on for the 13 cycle such that it should be an open item?

I didn't have it on my list, but yeah maybe we should add it to the
"pre-existing issues" list.

>> The quick-and-dirty answer is to disallow these switches from being
>> used together in pg_restore, and I'm inclined to think maybe we should
>> do that in the back branches.

> ..or should we do this for v13 and back-branches and leave fixing it for 14?
> Considering the potential invasiveness of the fix I think the latter sounds
> rather appealing at this point in the cycle. Something like the attached
> should be enough IIUC.

pg_dump and pg_dumpall also have that switch no?

regards, tom lane

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