Re: Forbid to DROP temp tables of other sessions

Hi,

On 2024-11-21 23:52:52 +0300, Andrey M. Borodin wrote:
> I suspect that protection of temp tables was broken by 00d1e02be249.

I think we might have broken this in multiple ways in recent releases. In 17
one can even read the data from the other relation when using a sequential
scan, because that'll go through a streaming read and from there directly to
StartReadBuffers(), bypassing the check in ReadBufferExtended().


> And I'd suggest fixing it in a line with how it worked before. Changes to
> locking mechanism is kind of a super subtle matters, it is really hard to
> bring this checks here without breaking something else. Maybe not
> immidiately. but still. I'd suggest fixing somewhere around
> RelationAddBlocks(). But be sure to check all code pathes that lead to this
> check.

Yea, I don't think the lock approach would work that well.  However, I don't
love having to put RELATION_IS_OTHER_TEMP() checks everywhere either. After
all we seem to have introduced two independent oversights related to this...

I wonder if we could handle this by having a few locations explicitly opt-in
to accessing another database's temp table and erroring out everywhere else -
there's not that many places we need to do so.


> Also, having an isolation test is nice. But do we actually do isolation
> tests with PL\pgSQL?

There are several other tests creating functions. But I think this one goes a
bit too far...


Greetings,

Andres Freund