Fix ALTER DATABASE RENAME to allow the operation if user is a superuser

who for some reason isn't marked usecreatedb.  Per report from Alexander
Pravking.  Also fix sloppy coding in have_createdb_privilege().

diff --git a/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c b/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c
index a602ff109cd2a14db941140a859a81ac05a8c03a..d00e6adc8fd556500a5ee9c82f362e8825f63584 100644 (file)
--- a/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c
+++ b/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *   $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c,v 1.148 2004/12/31 21:59:41 pgsql Exp $
+ *   $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c,v 1.148.4.1 2005/03/12 21:12:05 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -717,8 +717,8 @@ RenameDatabase(const char *oldname, const char *newname)
        aclcheck_error(ACLCHECK_NOT_OWNER, ACL_KIND_DATABASE,
                       oldname);
 
-   /* must have createdb */
-   if (!have_createdb_privilege())
+   /* must have createdb rights */
+   if (!superuser() && !have_createdb_privilege())
        ereport(ERROR,
                (errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_PRIVILEGE),
                 errmsg("permission denied to rename database")));
@@ -882,8 +882,7 @@ AlterDatabaseOwner(const char *dbname, AclId newOwnerSysId)
        bool        isNull;
        HeapTuple   newtuple;
 
-       /* changing owner's database for someone else: must be superuser */
-       /* note that the someone else need not have any permissions */
+       /* must be superuser to change ownership */
        if (!superuser())
            ereport(ERROR,
                    (errcode(ERRCODE_INSUFFICIENT_PRIVILEGE),
@@ -1004,24 +1003,22 @@ get_db_info(const char *name, Oid *dbIdP, int4 *ownerIdP,
    return gottuple;
 }
 
+/* Check if current user has createdb privileges */
 static bool
 have_createdb_privilege(void)
 {
+   bool        result = false;
    HeapTuple   utup;
-   bool        retval;
 
    utup = SearchSysCache(SHADOWSYSID,
                          Int32GetDatum(GetUserId()),
                          0, 0, 0);
-
-   if (!HeapTupleIsValid(utup))
-       retval = false;
-   else
-       retval = ((Form_pg_shadow) GETSTRUCT(utup))->usecreatedb;
-
-   ReleaseSysCache(utup);
-
-   return retval;
+   if (HeapTupleIsValid(utup))
+   {
+       result = ((Form_pg_shadow) GETSTRUCT(utup))->usecreatedb;
+       ReleaseSysCache(utup);
+   }
+   return result;
 }
 
 /*