Re: Granting SET and ALTER SYSTE privileges for GUCs

On 11/23/21 21:14, Mark Dilger wrote:
>
>> On Nov 23, 2021, at 8:07 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> It's my impression that information_schema is a child of the SQL
>> standard, and that inventions specific to PG go in pg_catalog.
>>
>> Also, I think the user-facing name for GUCs is "settings".
> Thanks. These issues should be fixed in v4.
>
> Along the way, I also added has_setting_privilege() functions overlooked in v3 and before.

This patch had bit-rotted slightly, and I was attempting to remedy it.
However, I got a failure running the TAP tests because of this change:

diff --git a/src/test/modules/test_pg_dump/t/001_base.pl
b/src/test/modules/test_pg_dump/t/001_base.pl
index 16f7610883..7fbf2d871b 100644
--- a/src/test/modules/test_pg_dump/t/001_base.pl
+++ b/src/test/modules/test_pg_dump/t/001_base.pl
@@ -9,7 +9,12 @@ use PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster;
 use PostgreSQL::Test::Utils;
 use Test::More;
 
-my $tempdir       = PostgreSQL::Test::Utils::tempdir;
+# my $tempdir       = PostgreSQL::Test::Utils::tempdir;
+my $tempbase = '/tmp/test_pg_dump';
+my $subdir = 0;
+$subdir++ while (-e "$tempbase/$subdir");
+my $tempdir = "$tempbase/$subdir";
+system("mkdir $tempdir");
 

What's going on here?

cheers

andrew

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