Re: vacuumdb: permission denied for schema "pg_temp_7"

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>
Cc: vaibhave postgres <postgresvaibhave(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Bug List <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, vsekar(at)microsoft(dot)com
Subject: Re: vacuumdb: permission denied for schema "pg_temp_7"
Date: 2024-09-24 14:30:21
Message-ID: ZvLM_Rqel-t_58IQ@nathan
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On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 06:13:23PM -0700, Christophe Pettus wrote:
> One related but not identical thing that has come up with vacuumdb is
> that it terminates if it's not able to connect to any database that it
> finds in the initial query. This can happen if pg_hba.conf denies the
> user that is running vacuumdb access to a database that comes up during
> --all. Some hosting providers (in particular, Google) create restricted
> databases in the cluster that a customer role can't get access to. This
> pretty much defeats --analyze-in-stages. My suggested fix was to
> terminate with an error if the initial connection fails, but continue
> with a warning if further connections fail.

I think it'd be fine to continue with a warning when --all is used, but if
you specify a --dbname that you cannot connect to, then I think it should
fail.

--
nathan

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