From: | Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | [17] Special search_path names "!pg_temp" and "!pg_catalog" |
Date: | 2023-08-18 21:44:31 |
Message-ID: | a6865db287596c9c6ea12bdd9de87216cb5e7902.camel@j-davis.com |
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The attached patch adds some special names to prevent pg_temp and/or
pg_catalog from being included implicitly.
This is a useful safety feature for functions that don't have any need
to search pg_temp.
The current (v16) recommendation is to include pg_temp last, which does
add to the safety, but it's confusing to *include* a namespace when
your intention is actually to *exclude* it, and it's also not
completely excluding pg_temp.
Although the syntax in the attached patch is not much friendlier, at
least it's clear that the intent is to exclude pg_temp. Furthermore, it
will be friendlier if we adopt the SEARCH SYSTEM syntax proposed in
another thread[1].
Additionally, this patch adds a WARNING when creating a schema that
uses one of these special names. Previously, there was no warning when
creating a schema with the name "$user", which could cause confusion.
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Jeff Davis
PostgreSQL Contributor Team - AWS
Attachment | Content-Type | Size |
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0001-Special-names-pg_temp-and-pg_catalog-for-search_path.patch | text/x-patch | 9.2 KB |
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