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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c b/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c
index a604432126c..64545bc3738 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c
@@ -582,6 +582,16 @@ GetAuthenticatedUserId(void)
return AuthenticatedUserId;
}
+/*
+ * Return whether the authenticated user was superuser at connection start.
+ */
+bool
+GetAuthenticatedUserIsSuperuser(void)
+{
+ Assert(OidIsValid(AuthenticatedUserId));
+ return AuthenticatedUserIsSuperuser;
+}
+
/*
* GetUserIdAndSecContext/SetUserIdAndSecContext - get/set the current user ID
@@ -889,28 +899,12 @@ system_user(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
/*
* Change session auth ID while running
*
- * Only a superuser may set auth ID to something other than himself. Note
- * that in case of multiple SETs in a single session, the original userid's
- * superuserness is what matters. But we set the GUC variable is_superuser
- * to indicate whether the *current* session userid is a superuser.
- *
- * Note: this is not an especially clean place to do the permission check.
- * It's OK because the check does not require catalog access and can't
- * fail during an end-of-transaction GUC reversion, but we may someday
- * have to push it up into assign_session_authorization.
+ * Note that we set the GUC variable is_superuser to indicate whether the
+ * current role is a superuser.
*/
void
SetSessionAuthorization(Oid userid, bool is_superuser)
{
- /* Must have authenticated already, else can't make permission check */
- Assert(OidIsValid(AuthenticatedUserId));
-
- if (userid != AuthenticatedUserId &&
- !AuthenticatedUserIsSuperuser)
- ereport(ERROR,
- (errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_PRIVILEGE),
- errmsg("permission denied to set session authorization")));
-
SetSessionUserId(userid, is_superuser);
SetConfigOption("is_superuser",