On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 2:48 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I agree that if we dropped the proviso about DB owners, it would be > a cleaner design. I included that only for backwards compatibility > with the existing behavior that DB owners can install trusted PLs. > If we can agree that we're willing to lose that behavior, I'd be > perfectly fine with removing the special case for DB owners. > However, I'm unsure whether that compatibility cost is acceptable. > It's definitely likely that it would cause an upgrade headache > for some installations.
I was assuming that installing extensions was fairly infrequent and that it probably gets done mostly by superusers anyway, so probably most people won't care if, after upgrading, they needed an extra GRANT to get things working again. That might be wrong, though. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
