On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 06:53:12PM +0300, Anastasia Lubennikova wrote:
> pg_upgrade from 9.6 fails if old cluster had non-standard ACL
> on pg_catalog functions that have changed between versions,
> for example pg_stop_backup(boolean).
>
> Error:
>
> pg_restore: creating ACL "pg_catalog.FUNCTION "pg_stop_backup"()"
> pg_restore: creating ACL "pg_catalog.FUNCTION "pg_stop_backup"("exclusive"
> boolean, OUT "lsn" "pg_lsn", OUT "labelfile" "text", OUT "spcmapfile"
> "text")"
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 2169; 0 0 ACL FUNCTION
> "pg_stop_backup"("exclusive" boolean, OUT "lsn" "pg_lsn", OUT "labelfile"
> "text", OUT "spcmapfile" "text") anastasia
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: function
> pg_catalog.pg_stop_backup(boolean) does not exist
> Command was: GRANT ALL ON FUNCTION
> "pg_catalog"."pg_stop_backup"("exclusive" boolean, OUT "lsn" "pg_lsn", OUT
> "labelfile" "text", OUT "spcmapfile" "text") TO "backup";
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1) create a database with pg9.6
> 2) create a user and change grants on pg_stop_backup(boolean):
> CREATE ROLE backup WITH LOGIN;
> GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA pg_catalog TO backup;
> GRANT EXECUTE ON FUNCTION pg_stop_backup() TO backup;
> GRANT EXECUTE ON FUNCTION pg_stop_backup(boolean) TO backup;
> 3) perform pg_upgrade to v10 (or any version above)
>
> The problem exists since we added to pg_dump support of ACL changes of
> pg_catalog functions in commit 23f34fa4b.
>
> I think this is a bug since it unpredictably affects user experience, so I
> propose to backpatch the fix.
> Script to reproduce the problem and the patch to fix it (credit to Arthur
> Zakirov) are attached.
Uh, wouldn't this affect any default-installed function where the
permission are modified? Is fixing only a few functions really helpful?
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