Re: Odd table ownership for PostgreSQL

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>
To: Giles Thomas <giles(at)pythonanywhere(dot)com>
Cc: Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de>, pgsql-pkg-debian(at)postgresql(dot)org, "support\(at)pythonanywhere(dot)com" <support(at)pythonanywhere(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Odd table ownership for PostgreSQL
Date: 2013-08-01 10:04:17
Message-ID: m261vpohge.fsf@2ndQuadrant.fr
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Giles Thomas <giles(at)pythonanywhere(dot)com> writes:
> Apologies for taking up your bandwith with this one, it turns out that there
> was one other factor involved that we'd forgotten -- we were using
> PostgreSQL Extension Whitelist extension
> (<https://github.com/dimitri/pgextwlist/>) and we've confirmed that the
> problem is present iff that extension is installed. It looks like it was
> last updated on 23 July, so I think we've found our culprit.

Currently working on it to fix a security problem we had with the
previous version. The fix is not complete yet, but the extension code
will now run as if executed by a superuser, so owned by him, where it
used to be owned by the connected user.

I now see the following issue, please refer to that as I'll answer there
for more details:

https://github.com/dimitri/pgextwlist/issues/6

Regards,
--
Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support

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