The variants of these functions that take numeric inputs (OIDs or
column numbers) are supposed to return NULL rather than failing
on bad input; this rule reduces problems with snapshot skew when
queries apply the functions to all rows of a catalog.
has_column_privilege() had careless handling of the case where the
table OID didn't exist. You might get something like this:
select has_column_privilege(9999,'nosuchcol','select');
ERROR: column "nosuchcol" of relation "(null)" does not exist
or you might get a crash, depending on the platform's printf's response
to a null string pointer.
In addition, while applying the column-number variant to a dropped
column returned NULL as desired, applying the column-name variant
did not:
select has_column_privilege('mytable','........pg.dropped.2........','select');
ERROR: column "........pg.dropped.2........" of relation "mytable" does not exist
It seems better to make this case return NULL as well.
Also, the OID-accepting variants of has_foreign_data_wrapper_privilege,
has_server_privilege, and has_tablespace_privilege didn't follow the
principle of returning NULL for nonexistent OIDs. Superusers got TRUE,
everybody else got an error.
Per investigation of Jaime Casanova's report of a new crash in HEAD.
These behaviors have been like this for a long time, so back-patch to
all supported branches.
Patch by me; thanks to Stephen Frost for discussion and review
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJGNTeP=-6Gyqq5TN9OvYEydi7Fv1oGyYj650LGTnW44oAzYCg@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane
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