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<title>delta/postgresql.git/src/test/regress/expected/dependency.out, branch master</title>
<subtitle>git.postgresql.org: git/postgresql.git
</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trove.baserock.org/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>Improve several permission-related error messages.</title>
<updated>2023-03-17T09:33:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Eisentraut</name>
<email>peter@eisentraut.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-17T09:14:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trove.baserock.org/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/commit/?id=de4d456b406bf502341ef526710d3f764b41e2c8'/>
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Mainly move some detail from errmsg to errdetail, remove explicit
mention of superuser where appropriate, since that is implied in most
permission checks, and make messages more uniform.

Author: Nathan Bossart &lt;nathandbossart@gmail.com&gt;
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20230316234701.GA903298@nathanxps13
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Mainly move some detail from errmsg to errdetail, remove explicit
mention of superuser where appropriate, since that is implied in most
permission checks, and make messages more uniform.

Author: Nathan Bossart &lt;nathandbossart@gmail.com&gt;
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20230316234701.GA903298@nathanxps13
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Add grantable MAINTAIN privilege and pg_maintain role.</title>
<updated>2022-12-14T01:33:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Davis</name>
<email>jdavis@postgresql.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-14T01:33:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trove.baserock.org/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/commit/?id=60684dd834a222fefedd49b19d1f0a6189c1632e'/>
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Allows VACUUM, ANALYZE, REINDEX, REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW, CLUSTER,
and LOCK TABLE.

Effectively reverts 4441fc704d. Instead of creating separate
privileges for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and other maintenance commands, group
them together under a single MAINTAIN privilege.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221212210136.GA449764@nathanxps13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/45224.1670476523@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Allows VACUUM, ANALYZE, REINDEX, REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW, CLUSTER,
and LOCK TABLE.

Effectively reverts 4441fc704d. Instead of creating separate
privileges for VACUUM, ANALYZE, and other maintenance commands, group
them together under a single MAINTAIN privilege.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221212210136.GA449764@nathanxps13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/45224.1670476523@sss.pgh.pa.us
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Provide per-table permissions for vacuum and analyze.</title>
<updated>2022-11-28T17:08:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Dunstan</name>
<email>andrew@dunslane.net</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-28T15:08:42+00:00</published>
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Currently a table can only be vacuumed or analyzed by its owner or
a superuser. This can now be extended to any user by means of an
appropriate GRANT.

Nathan Bossart

Reviewed by: Bharath Rupireddy, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Stephen Frost, Robert
Haas, Mark Dilger, Tom Lane, Corey Huinker, David G. Johnston, Michael
Paquier.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220722203735.GB3996698@nathanxps13
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Currently a table can only be vacuumed or analyzed by its owner or
a superuser. This can now be extended to any user by means of an
appropriate GRANT.

Nathan Bossart

Reviewed by: Bharath Rupireddy, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Stephen Frost, Robert
Haas, Mark Dilger, Tom Lane, Corey Huinker, David G. Johnston, Michael
Paquier.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220722203735.GB3996698@nathanxps13
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Multirange datatypes</title>
<updated>2020-12-20T04:20:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Korotkov</name>
<email>akorotkov@postgresql.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-20T04:20:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trove.baserock.org/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/commit/?id=6df7a9698bb036610c1e8c6d375e1be38cb26d5f'/>
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Multiranges are basically sorted arrays of non-overlapping ranges with
set-theoretic operations defined over them.

Since v14, each range type automatically gets a corresponding multirange
datatype.  There are both manual and automatic mechanisms for naming multirange
types.  Once can specify multirange type name using multirange_type_name
attribute in CREATE TYPE.  Otherwise, a multirange type name is generated
automatically.  If the range type name contains "range" then we change that to
"multirange".  Otherwise, we add "_multirange" to the end.

Implementation of multiranges comes with a space-efficient internal
representation format, which evades extra paddings and duplicated storage of
oids.  Altogether this format allows fetching a particular range by its index
in O(n).

Statistic gathering and selectivity estimation are implemented for multiranges.
For this purpose, stored multirange is approximated as union range without gaps.
This field will likely need improvements in the future.

Catversion is bumped.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALNJ-vSUpQ_Y%3DjXvTxt1VYFztaBSsWVXeF1y6gTYQ4bOiWDLgQ%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a0b8026459d1e6167933be2104a6174e7d40d0ab.camel%40j-davis.com#fe7218c83b08068bfffb0c5293eceda0
Author: Paul Jungwirth, revised by me
Reviewed-by: David Fetter, Corey Huinker, Jeff Davis, Pavel Stehule
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane, Isaac Morland, David G. Johnston
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu, Alexander Korotkov
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Multiranges are basically sorted arrays of non-overlapping ranges with
set-theoretic operations defined over them.

Since v14, each range type automatically gets a corresponding multirange
datatype.  There are both manual and automatic mechanisms for naming multirange
types.  Once can specify multirange type name using multirange_type_name
attribute in CREATE TYPE.  Otherwise, a multirange type name is generated
automatically.  If the range type name contains "range" then we change that to
"multirange".  Otherwise, we add "_multirange" to the end.

Implementation of multiranges comes with a space-efficient internal
representation format, which evades extra paddings and duplicated storage of
oids.  Altogether this format allows fetching a particular range by its index
in O(n).

Statistic gathering and selectivity estimation are implemented for multiranges.
For this purpose, stored multirange is approximated as union range without gaps.
This field will likely need improvements in the future.

Catversion is bumped.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALNJ-vSUpQ_Y%3DjXvTxt1VYFztaBSsWVXeF1y6gTYQ4bOiWDLgQ%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a0b8026459d1e6167933be2104a6174e7d40d0ab.camel%40j-davis.com#fe7218c83b08068bfffb0c5293eceda0
Author: Paul Jungwirth, revised by me
Reviewed-by: David Fetter, Corey Huinker, Jeff Davis, Pavel Stehule
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane, Isaac Morland, David G. Johnston
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu, Alexander Korotkov
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Un-hide most cascaded-drop details in regression test results.</title>
<updated>2019-03-24T23:15:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lane</name>
<email>tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-24T23:15:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trove.baserock.org/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/commit/?id=940311e4bb32a5fe99155052e41179c88b5d48af'/>
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Now that the ordering of DROP messages ought to be stable everywhere,
we should not need these kluges of hiding DETAIL output just to avoid
unstable ordering.  Hiding it's not great for test coverage, so
let's undo that where possible.

In a small number of places, it's necessary to leave it in, for
example because the output might include a variable pg_temp_nnn
schema name.  I also left things alone in places where the details
would depend on other regression test scripts, e.g. plpython_drop.sql.

Perhaps buildfarm experience will show this to be a bad idea,
but if so I'd like to know why.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1h6eep-0001Mw-Vd@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Now that the ordering of DROP messages ought to be stable everywhere,
we should not need these kluges of hiding DETAIL output just to avoid
unstable ordering.  Hiding it's not great for test coverage, so
let's undo that where possible.

In a small number of places, it's necessary to leave it in, for
example because the output might include a variable pg_temp_nnn
schema name.  I also left things alone in places where the details
would depend on other regression test scripts, e.g. plpython_drop.sql.

Perhaps buildfarm experience will show this to be a bad idea,
but if so I'd like to know why.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1h6eep-0001Mw-Vd@gemulon.postgresql.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Sort dependent objects before reporting them in DROP ROLE.</title>
<updated>2019-03-24T22:17:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lane</name>
<email>tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-24T22:17:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trove.baserock.org/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/commit/?id=af6550d34466b3093edda54a0cc5a6f220d321b7'/>
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<content type='text'>
Commit 8aa9dd74b didn't quite finish the job in this area after all,
because DROP ROLE has a code path distinct from DROP OWNED BY, and
it was still reporting dependent objects in whatever order the index
scan returned them in.

Buildfarm experience shows that index ordering of equal-keyed objects is
significantly less stable than before in the wake of using heap TIDs as
tie-breakers.  So if we try to hide the unstable ordering by suppressing
DETAIL reports, we're just going to end up having to do that for every
DROP that reports multiple objects.  That's not great from a coverage
or problem-detection standpoint, and it's something we'll inevitably
forget in future patches, leading to more iterations of fixing-an-
unstable-result.  So let's just bite the bullet and sort here too.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1h6eep-0001Mw-Vd@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Commit 8aa9dd74b didn't quite finish the job in this area after all,
because DROP ROLE has a code path distinct from DROP OWNED BY, and
it was still reporting dependent objects in whatever order the index
scan returned them in.

Buildfarm experience shows that index ordering of equal-keyed objects is
significantly less stable than before in the wake of using heap TIDs as
tie-breakers.  So if we try to hide the unstable ordering by suppressing
DETAIL reports, we're just going to end up having to do that for every
DROP that reports multiple objects.  That's not great from a coverage
or problem-detection standpoint, and it's something we'll inevitably
forget in future patches, leading to more iterations of fixing-an-
unstable-result.  So let's just bite the bullet and sort here too.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1h6eep-0001Mw-Vd@gemulon.postgresql.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Make heap TID a tiebreaker nbtree index column.</title>
<updated>2019-03-20T17:04:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Geoghegan</name>
<email>pg@bowt.ie</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-20T17:04:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trove.baserock.org/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/commit/?id=dd299df8189bd00fbe54b72c64f43b6af2ffeccd'/>
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Make nbtree treat all index tuples as having a heap TID attribute.
Index searches can distinguish duplicates by heap TID, since heap TID is
always guaranteed to be unique.  This general approach has numerous
benefits for performance, and is prerequisite to teaching VACUUM to
perform "retail index tuple deletion".

Naively adding a new attribute to every pivot tuple has unacceptable
overhead (it bloats internal pages), so suffix truncation of pivot
tuples is added.  This will usually truncate away the "extra" heap TID
attribute from pivot tuples during a leaf page split, and may also
truncate away additional user attributes.  This can increase fan-out,
especially in a multi-column index.  Truncation can only occur at the
attribute granularity, which isn't particularly effective, but works
well enough for now.  A future patch may add support for truncating
"within" text attributes by generating truncated key values using new
opclass infrastructure.

Only new indexes (BTREE_VERSION 4 indexes) will have insertions that
treat heap TID as a tiebreaker attribute, or will have pivot tuples
undergo suffix truncation during a leaf page split (on-disk
compatibility with versions 2 and 3 is preserved).  Upgrades to version
4 cannot be performed on-the-fly, unlike upgrades from version 2 to
version 3.  contrib/amcheck continues to work with version 2 and 3
indexes, while also enforcing stricter invariants when verifying version
4 indexes.  These stricter invariants are the same invariants described
by "3.1.12 Sequencing" from the Lehman and Yao paper.

A later patch will enhance the logic used by nbtree to pick a split
point.  This patch is likely to negatively impact performance without
smarter choices around the precise point to split leaf pages at.  Making
these two mostly-distinct sets of enhancements into distinct commits
seems like it might clarify their design, even though neither commit is
particularly useful on its own.

The maximum allowed size of new tuples is reduced by an amount equal to
the space required to store an extra MAXALIGN()'d TID in a new high key
during leaf page splits.  The user-facing definition of the "1/3 of a
page" restriction is already imprecise, and so does not need to be
revised.  However, there should be a compatibility note in the v12
release notes.

Author: Peter Geoghegan
Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas, Alexander Korotkov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkVb0Kom=R+88fDFb=JSxZMFvbHVC6Mn9LJ2n=X=kS-Uw@mail.gmail.com
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Make nbtree treat all index tuples as having a heap TID attribute.
Index searches can distinguish duplicates by heap TID, since heap TID is
always guaranteed to be unique.  This general approach has numerous
benefits for performance, and is prerequisite to teaching VACUUM to
perform "retail index tuple deletion".

Naively adding a new attribute to every pivot tuple has unacceptable
overhead (it bloats internal pages), so suffix truncation of pivot
tuples is added.  This will usually truncate away the "extra" heap TID
attribute from pivot tuples during a leaf page split, and may also
truncate away additional user attributes.  This can increase fan-out,
especially in a multi-column index.  Truncation can only occur at the
attribute granularity, which isn't particularly effective, but works
well enough for now.  A future patch may add support for truncating
"within" text attributes by generating truncated key values using new
opclass infrastructure.

Only new indexes (BTREE_VERSION 4 indexes) will have insertions that
treat heap TID as a tiebreaker attribute, or will have pivot tuples
undergo suffix truncation during a leaf page split (on-disk
compatibility with versions 2 and 3 is preserved).  Upgrades to version
4 cannot be performed on-the-fly, unlike upgrades from version 2 to
version 3.  contrib/amcheck continues to work with version 2 and 3
indexes, while also enforcing stricter invariants when verifying version
4 indexes.  These stricter invariants are the same invariants described
by "3.1.12 Sequencing" from the Lehman and Yao paper.

A later patch will enhance the logic used by nbtree to pick a split
point.  This patch is likely to negatively impact performance without
smarter choices around the precise point to split leaf pages at.  Making
these two mostly-distinct sets of enhancements into distinct commits
seems like it might clarify their design, even though neither commit is
particularly useful on its own.

The maximum allowed size of new tuples is reduced by an amount equal to
the space required to store an extra MAXALIGN()'d TID in a new high key
during leaf page splits.  The user-facing definition of the "1/3 of a
page" restriction is already imprecise, and so does not need to be
revised.  However, there should be a compatibility note in the v12
release notes.

Author: Peter Geoghegan
Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas, Alexander Korotkov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkVb0Kom=R+88fDFb=JSxZMFvbHVC6Mn9LJ2n=X=kS-Uw@mail.gmail.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Establish conventions about global object names used in regression tests.</title>
<updated>2016-07-17T22:42:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lane</name>
<email>tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-17T22:42:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trove.baserock.org/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/commit/?id=18555b1323bd225c7882e80723c52f25ce60afed'/>
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To ensure that "make installcheck" can be used safely against an existing
installation, we need to be careful about what global object names
(database, role, and tablespace names) we use; otherwise we might
accidentally clobber important objects.  There's been a weak consensus that
test databases should have names including "regression", and that test role
names should start with "regress_", but we didn't have any particular rule
about tablespace names; and neither of the other rules was followed with
any consistency either.

This commit moves us a long way towards having a hard-and-fast rule that
regression test databases must have names including "regression", and that
test role and tablespace names must start with "regress_".  It's not
completely there because I did not touch some test cases in rolenames.sql
that test creation of special role names like "session_user".  That will
require some rethinking of exactly what we want to test, whereas the intent
of this patch is just to hit all the cases in which the needed renamings
are cosmetic.

There is no enforcement mechanism in this patch either, but if we don't
add one we can expect that the tests will soon be violating the convention
again.  Again, that's not such a cosmetic change and it will require
discussion.  (But I did use a quick-hack enforcement patch to find these
cases.)

Discussion: &lt;16638.1468620817@sss.pgh.pa.us&gt;
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To ensure that "make installcheck" can be used safely against an existing
installation, we need to be careful about what global object names
(database, role, and tablespace names) we use; otherwise we might
accidentally clobber important objects.  There's been a weak consensus that
test databases should have names including "regression", and that test role
names should start with "regress_", but we didn't have any particular rule
about tablespace names; and neither of the other rules was followed with
any consistency either.

This commit moves us a long way towards having a hard-and-fast rule that
regression test databases must have names including "regression", and that
test role and tablespace names must start with "regress_".  It's not
completely there because I did not touch some test cases in rolenames.sql
that test creation of special role names like "session_user".  That will
require some rethinking of exactly what we want to test, whereas the intent
of this patch is just to hit all the cases in which the needed renamings
are cosmetic.

There is no enforcement mechanism in this patch either, but if we don't
add one we can expect that the tests will soon be violating the convention
again.  Again, that's not such a cosmetic change and it will require
discussion.  (But I did use a quick-hack enforcement patch to find these
cases.)

Discussion: &lt;16638.1468620817@sss.pgh.pa.us&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Rework internals of changing a type's ownership</title>
<updated>2015-12-17T17:25:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alvaro Herrera</name>
<email>alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-17T17:25:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trove.baserock.org/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/commit/?id=756e7b4c9db1fa713b886068643257c823baddaf'/>
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This is necessary so that REASSIGN OWNED does the right thing with
composite types, to wit, that it also alters ownership of the type's
pg_class entry -- previously, the pg_class entry remained owned by the
original user, which caused later other failures such as the new owner's
inability to use ALTER TYPE to rename an attribute of the affected
composite.  Also, if the original owner is later dropped, the pg_class
entry becomes owned by a non-existant user which is bogus.

To fix, create a new routine AlterTypeOwner_oid which knows whether to
pass the request to ATExecChangeOwner or deal with it directly, and use
that in shdepReassignOwner rather than calling AlterTypeOwnerInternal
directly.  AlterTypeOwnerInternal is now simpler in that it only
modifies the pg_type entry and recurses to handle a possible array type;
higher-level tasks are handled by either AlterTypeOwner directly or
AlterTypeOwner_oid.

I took the opportunity to add a few more objects to the test rig for
REASSIGN OWNED, so that more cases are exercised.  Additional ones could
be added for superuser-only-ownable objects (such as FDWs and event
triggers) but I didn't want to push my luck by adding a new superuser to
the tests on a backpatchable bug fix.

Per bug #13666 reported by Chris Pacejo.

Backpatch to 9.5.

(I would back-patch this all the way back, except that it doesn't apply
cleanly in 9.4 and earlier because 59367fdf9 wasn't backpatched.  If we
decide that we need this in earlier branches too, we should backpatch
both.)
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This is necessary so that REASSIGN OWNED does the right thing with
composite types, to wit, that it also alters ownership of the type's
pg_class entry -- previously, the pg_class entry remained owned by the
original user, which caused later other failures such as the new owner's
inability to use ALTER TYPE to rename an attribute of the affected
composite.  Also, if the original owner is later dropped, the pg_class
entry becomes owned by a non-existant user which is bogus.

To fix, create a new routine AlterTypeOwner_oid which knows whether to
pass the request to ATExecChangeOwner or deal with it directly, and use
that in shdepReassignOwner rather than calling AlterTypeOwnerInternal
directly.  AlterTypeOwnerInternal is now simpler in that it only
modifies the pg_type entry and recurses to handle a possible array type;
higher-level tasks are handled by either AlterTypeOwner directly or
AlterTypeOwner_oid.

I took the opportunity to add a few more objects to the test rig for
REASSIGN OWNED, so that more cases are exercised.  Additional ones could
be added for superuser-only-ownable objects (such as FDWs and event
triggers) but I didn't want to push my luck by adding a new superuser to
the tests on a backpatchable bug fix.

Per bug #13666 reported by Chris Pacejo.

Backpatch to 9.5.

(I would back-patch this all the way back, except that it doesn't apply
cleanly in 9.4 and earlier because 59367fdf9 wasn't backpatched.  If we
decide that we need this in earlier branches too, we should backpatch
both.)
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Row-Level Security Policies (RLS)</title>
<updated>2014-09-19T15:18:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Frost</name>
<email>sfrost@snowman.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-19T15:18:35+00:00</published>
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Building on the updatable security-barrier views work, add the
ability to define policies on tables to limit the set of rows
which are returned from a query and which are allowed to be added
to a table.  Expressions defined by the policy for filtering are
added to the security barrier quals of the query, while expressions
defined to check records being added to a table are added to the
with-check options of the query.

New top-level commands are CREATE/ALTER/DROP POLICY and are
controlled by the table owner.  Row Security is able to be enabled
and disabled by the owner on a per-table basis using
ALTER TABLE .. ENABLE/DISABLE ROW SECURITY.

Per discussion, ROW SECURITY is disabled on tables by default and
must be enabled for policies on the table to be used.  If no
policies exist on a table with ROW SECURITY enabled, a default-deny
policy is used and no records will be visible.

By default, row security is applied at all times except for the
table owner and the superuser.  A new GUC, row_security, is added
which can be set to ON, OFF, or FORCE.  When set to FORCE, row
security will be applied even for the table owner and superusers.
When set to OFF, row security will be disabled when allowed and an
error will be thrown if the user does not have rights to bypass row
security.

Per discussion, pg_dump sets row_security = OFF by default to ensure
that exports and backups will have all data in the table or will
error if there are insufficient privileges to bypass row security.
A new option has been added to pg_dump, --enable-row-security, to
ask pg_dump to export with row security enabled.

A new role capability, BYPASSRLS, which can only be set by the
superuser, is added to allow other users to be able to bypass row
security using row_security = OFF.

Many thanks to the various individuals who have helped with the
design, particularly Robert Haas for his feedback.

Authors include Craig Ringer, KaiGai Kohei, Adam Brightwell, Dean
Rasheed, with additional changes and rework by me.

Reviewers have included all of the above, Greg Smith,
Jeff McCormick, and Robert Haas.
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Building on the updatable security-barrier views work, add the
ability to define policies on tables to limit the set of rows
which are returned from a query and which are allowed to be added
to a table.  Expressions defined by the policy for filtering are
added to the security barrier quals of the query, while expressions
defined to check records being added to a table are added to the
with-check options of the query.

New top-level commands are CREATE/ALTER/DROP POLICY and are
controlled by the table owner.  Row Security is able to be enabled
and disabled by the owner on a per-table basis using
ALTER TABLE .. ENABLE/DISABLE ROW SECURITY.

Per discussion, ROW SECURITY is disabled on tables by default and
must be enabled for policies on the table to be used.  If no
policies exist on a table with ROW SECURITY enabled, a default-deny
policy is used and no records will be visible.

By default, row security is applied at all times except for the
table owner and the superuser.  A new GUC, row_security, is added
which can be set to ON, OFF, or FORCE.  When set to FORCE, row
security will be applied even for the table owner and superusers.
When set to OFF, row security will be disabled when allowed and an
error will be thrown if the user does not have rights to bypass row
security.

Per discussion, pg_dump sets row_security = OFF by default to ensure
that exports and backups will have all data in the table or will
error if there are insufficient privileges to bypass row security.
A new option has been added to pg_dump, --enable-row-security, to
ask pg_dump to export with row security enabled.

A new role capability, BYPASSRLS, which can only be set by the
superuser, is added to allow other users to be able to bypass row
security using row_security = OFF.

Many thanks to the various individuals who have helped with the
design, particularly Robert Haas for his feedback.

Authors include Craig Ringer, KaiGai Kohei, Adam Brightwell, Dean
Rasheed, with additional changes and rework by me.

Reviewers have included all of the above, Greg Smith,
Jeff McCormick, and Robert Haas.
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