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Now that we track initial privileges on extension objects and changes to those permissions, we can drop the superuser() checks from the various functions which are part of the pgstattuple extension and rely on the GRANT system to control access to those functions. Since a pg_upgrade will preserve the version of the extension which existed prior to the upgrade, we can't simply modify the existing functions but instead need to create new functions which remove the checks and update the SQL-level functions to use the new functions (and to REVOKE EXECUTE rights on those functions from PUBLIC). Thanks to Tom and Andres for adding support for extensions to follow update paths (see: 40b449a), allowing this patch to be much smaller since no new base version script needed to be included. Approach suggested by Noah. Reviewed by Michael Paquier.
The PostgreSQL contrib tree
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This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree. This does not preclude their
usefulness.
User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.
When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target. You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.
Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types. To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command. In a fresh database,
you can simply do
CREATE EXTENSION module_name;
See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.