Re: pgsql: Adjust interaction of CREATEROLE with role properties.

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Adjust interaction of CREATEROLE with role properties.
Date: 2023-01-27 13:27:40
Message-ID: 6c20449e-ac9c-7876-0d90-70a1ddea1076@dunslane.net
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On 2023-01-26 Th 22:18, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 09:08:23PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Is it worth checking for leftover regress_xxx tablespaces as well as
>>> roles?
>> Guess so. If this is to be applied to everything that fails under the
>> naming restrictions, there could be a point in doing the same for
>> databases, subscriptions and replication origins. Now the argument
>> has less weight for these object types, surely, compared to roles and
>> tbspaces.
> By the time we've spun up a new backend, we might as well do more
> than one query, so it seems like we might as well check everything
> that's globally visible.
>
> However ... this'd only cover mistakes of this kind in the core
> regression tests. Is there a way to cover contrib's installcheck
> (without adding an additional psql run to each module's tests)?
>
> Maybe we need to enforce this at some other level than the tests
> themselves, perhaps in pg_regress?
>
>

Yeah, that seems like a better way to go. Then it would even apply to
external project tests.

cheers

andrew

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