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A database owner running a database-level REINDEX has the possibility to also do the operation on shared system catalogs without being an owner of them, which allows him to block resources it should not have access to. The same goes for a schema owner. For example, PostgreSQL would go unresponsive and even block authentication if a lock is waited for pg_authid. This commit makes sure that a user running a REINDEX SYSTEM, DATABASE or SCHEMA only works on the following relations: - The user is a superuser - The user is the table owner - The user is the database/schema owner, only if the relation worked on is not shared. Robert has worded most the documentation changes, and I have coded the core part. Reported-by: Lloyd Albin, Jeremy Schneider Author: Michael Paquier, Robert Haas Reviewed by: Nathan Bossart, Kyotaro Horiguchi Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152512087100.19803.12733865831237526317@wrigleys.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180805211059.GA2185@paquier.xyz Backpatch-through: 11- as the current behavior has been around for a very long time and could be disruptive for already released branches.
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