2010/5/24 KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>:
> I think we need a new SPI_*() interface which allows to run the given query
> without any permission checks, because these queries are purely internal stuff,
> so we can trust the query is harmless.
[...]
> I'm afraid of that the src/backend/catalog/aclchk.c will become overcrowding
> in the future. If it is ugly to deploy checker functions in separated dir/files,
> I think it is an idea to put it on the execMain.c, instead of ExecCheckRTEPerms().
Both of these are bad ideas, for reasons Stephen Frost has articulated well.
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