Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> writes:
> On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 12:46:41PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Is there any likely use-case for providing separate control flags for the
>> two permission checks? That would require an API change for DefineIndex,
>> making this considerably more invasive, so I'm not pushing for it ---
>> just think it's worth asking the question before proceeding.
> Good question. I can't think of one.
Yeah, after some reflection I agree. Basically what we want for the ALTER
TABLE scenario is "ignore *all* permissions checks"; if somebody adds some
other check here in future, it probably also ought to be skipped during
a rebuild. So a single bool ought to be fine.
Are you intending to back-patch this? It seems like a bug fix --- but not
a very high-priority one, so at this point maybe it should wait till after
the release wraps.
regards, tom lane