Fix contrib/pgstattuple and contrib/pageinspect to prevent attempts to read

temporary tables of other sessions; that is unsafe because of the way our
buffer management works.  Per report from Stuart Bishop.
This is redundant with the bufmgr.c checks in HEAD, but not at all redundant
in the back branches.
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Tom Lane 2009-03-31 22:56:05 +00:00
parent 7daa32daa9
commit af4ebb272e

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@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/*
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/pgstattuple/pgstattuple.c,v 1.20 2005/10/15 02:49:06 momjian Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/contrib/pgstattuple/pgstattuple.c,v 1.20.2.1 2009/03/31 22:56:05 tgl Exp $
*
* Copyright (c) 2001,2002 Tatsuo Ishii
*
@ -115,6 +115,16 @@ pgstattuple_real(Relation rel, FunctionCallInfo fcinfo)
int i;
Datum result;
/*
* Reject attempts to read non-local temporary relations; we would
* be likely to get wrong data since we have no visibility into the
* owning session's local buffers.
*/
if (isOtherTempNamespace(RelationGetNamespace(rel)))
ereport(ERROR,
(errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
errmsg("cannot access temporary tables of other sessions")));
/* Build a tuple descriptor for our result type */
if (get_call_result_type(fcinfo, NULL, &tupdesc) != TYPEFUNC_COMPOSITE)
elog(ERROR, "return type must be a row type");