Re: Alter all tables in schema owner fix

On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 9:53 AM Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 2:06 PM vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > Currently while changing the owner of ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA
> > publication, it is not checked if the new owner has superuser
> > permission or not. Added a check to throw an error if the new owner
> > does not have superuser permission.
> > Attached patch has the changes for the same. Thoughts?
> >
>
> It looks OK to me, but just two things:
>
> 1) Isn't it better to name "CheckSchemaPublication" as
> "IsSchemaPublication", since it has a boolean return and also
> typically CheckXXX type functions normally do checking and error-out
> if they find a problem.

Modified

> 2) Since superuser_arg() caches previous input arg (last_roleid) and
> has a fast-exit, and has been called immediately before for the FOR
> ALL TABLES case, it would be better to write:
>
> + if (CheckSchemaPublication(form->oid) && !superuser_arg(newOwnerId))
>
> as:
>
> + if (!superuser_arg(newOwnerId) && IsSchemaPublication(form->oid))

Modified

Thanks for the comments, the attached v2 patch has the changes for the same.

Regards,
Vignesh