Re: Clarification on materialized view restriction needed

I would be good, if this set gets documented, lest users will be confused.
Can you point me to relevant sections of document? I can add this
documentation.

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 01:57:49PM +0530, Ashutosh Bapat wrote:
> > I want to create a materialized view as the output of a plpgsql function
> > returning a set of rows. But that function creates temporary tables and
> > thus can not be used for creating materialized view as per the
> > documentation at
> >
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-creatematerializedview.html.
> > "This query will run within a security-restricted operation; in
> particular,
> > calls to functions that themselves create temporary tables will fail."
> >
> > I tried to understand what is "security-restricted operation", and didn't
> > find any definition of this term or any listing as to "these are
> > security-restricted operations ...". I am wondering what are other
> > restrictions on the queries whose results can be used to create
> > materialized views.
>
> The semantics of a security-restricted operation remain undocumented. You
> can
> witness the list of restrictions by searching for callers of
> InSecurityRestrictedOperation(). Here is the current list for core code:
>
> - CREATE TEMP TABLE
> - SET ROLE
> - SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION
> - CLOSE
> - PREPARE
> - DEALLOCATE
> - LISTEN
> - UNLISTEN
> - DISCARD
>
> --
> Noah Misch
> EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
>

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