In my haste, I neglected to update the name of this view in my post to pg_database from its original definition as pg_db, which was the original name of the hacked view.
The point is that we want pg_catalog.pg_database to be superseded by public.pg_database from the point of view of both the user and pg_dump.
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On Jul 11, 2005, at 11:39 AM, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote:
Then we ran into the problem of allowing users to dump their own databases, which requires access to pg_database that we're trying to prevent at the user level. So we're now setting our schema search path for all user-created databases to public, pg_catalog, $user. Then we're creating a view called pg_database as:
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW pg_db AS
SELECT oid, *
FROM pg_database
WHERE datname=(select current_user)