Re: Bug #6593, extensions, and proposed new patch policy

Excerpts from Alvaro Herrera's message of mié abr 18 18:27:27 -0300 2012:
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mié abr 18 13:05:03 -0300 2012:
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> > <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> > > Per bug #6593, REASSIGN OWNED fails when the affected role owns an
> > > extension.  This would be trivial to fix if extensions had support code
> > > for ALTER EXTENSION / OWNER, but they don't.  So the only back-patchable
> > > fix right now seems to be to throw an error on REASSIGN OWNED when the
> > > user owns an extension.  (If anyone wants to claim that we ought to work
> > > on a real fix that allows changing the owner internally from REASSIGN
> > > OWNED, without introducing ALTER EXTENSION support for doing so, let me
> > > know and I'll see about it.)
> >
> > I would be OK with the latter.
>
> Here's a patch for that.

Applied to master, 9.2 and 9.1.  Sorry for dropping the ball on it.

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