Re: pg_init_privs corruption.

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 3:38 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Floris Van Nee <florisvannee(at)Optiver(dot)com> writes:
> > This is as far as I can see the same case as what I reported a few years ago here: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1574068566573.13088%40Optiver.com#488bd647ce6f5d2c92764673a7c58289
> > There was a discussion with some options, but no fix back then.
>
> Hmm, so Stephen was opining that the extension's objects shouldn't
> have gotten these privs attached in the first place. I'm not
> quite convinced about that one way or the other, but if you buy it
> then maybe this situation is unreachable once we fix that. I'm
> not sure though. It's still clear that we are making ACL entries
> that aren't reflected in pg_shdepend, and that seems bad.

Yep. I think you have the right idea how to fix this. Making extension
creation somehow not subject to the same rules about default
privileges as everything else doesn't seem like either a good idea or
a real fix for this problem.

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Robert Haas
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