Re: leaky views, yet again

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> I get the impression that you think that there's a problem not only
>> with the approach but with any approach whatsoever to that underlying
>> problem.
>
> Let's just say that the approaches proposed so far have performance
> and/or functionality and/or code maintenance penalties that are utterly
> unacceptable from the standpoint of people who don't need RLS.  I don't
> know if there is a workable solution, but I do know I've not seen one.
>
>> With respect to selectivity estimation, do we have a live bug there
>> now?
>
> No, I don't believe so.  Given that you'd like to get the planner to
> call function XYZ, you could create an operator using XYZ and attach to
> it one of the estimation functions that will actually call the
> underlying function --- but you have to have call permission on the
> function in order to create the operator.

But suppose the operator already exists, but I don't have permission
to call the underlying function... can I get the planner to call the
function for me by EXPLAIN-ing the right query?

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