Re: WIP patch (v2) for updatable security barrier views

On 12 January 2014 10:12, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 01/09/2014 06:48 PM, Dean Rasheed wrote:
>> On 8 January 2014 10:19, Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The assertion failure with inheritance and sublinks is a separate
>>> issue --- adjust_appendrel_attrs() is not expecting to find any
>>> unplanned sublinks in the query tree when it is invoked, since they
>>> would normally have all been planned by that point. However, the
>>> addition of the new security barrier subqueries after inheritance
>>> expansion can now insert new sublinks which need to be planned. I'll
>>> look into how best to make that happen.
>>
>> The attached patch does that, which fixes the case you reported.
>
> Dean, any objections to adding this to the current CF, or to my doing so?
>

OK, I'll do that.

I've added a page to the wiki with a more in-depth description of how
the patch works, and the test cases I've tried so far:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Making_security_barrier_views_automatically_updatable

there's obviously still a lot more testing to do, but the early signs
are encouraging.

Regards,
Dean