Re: Strange permission problem regarding pg_settings

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: fgp(at)phlo(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Strange permission problem regarding pg_settings
Date: 2003-12-11 18:33:06
Message-ID: 3FD8B862.9060509@joeconway.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> This does not surprise me; the original code was just plain buggy.
> I suspect it is applying some completely inappropriate check (like
> checking some other permission bit than UPDATE), so that the apparently
> correct failure is really coincidental, and it still fails when it
> should succeed. Unfortunately I don't have a running copy of 7.3.2 to
> trace through ...

I saw something similar the other day on my copy of 7.3.2. I'll try to
work through this, but it may be the weekend before I have time to
really dig in.

Joe

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