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On 6/19/25 15:09, Dominique Devienne wrote:
> Hi. Little mystery we don't understand. v17.
> 
> Create new DB, owned by dedicated new ROLE.
> Create extension (pgcrypto) in our case. Installed in public, owned by
> DB owner role.
> Create schemas and populate them inside the DB.
> This also creates roles associated to those schemas.
> One of the schema is owned by the DB owner (in case that matters).
> Creates functions using pgcrypto, in some of those schemas.
> Drop all schemas (and associated roles), thus pgcrypto-using functins are gone.
> Of course, the DB owner role was not dropped. Can't in fact.
> Somehow, the pgcrypto extension has disappeared, as side-effects of the drops.
> We did a LIBPQ trace of the command to does all the drops,
> and there's no explicit drop of the extension.
> 
> All of the above is done using a LOGIN role that has CREATEROLE and CREATEDB.
> 
> Extensions are not supposed to implicitly disappear, are they?

No, extensions should not disappear.

> Any idea, what we're missing, that might explain pgcrypto's disappearance?
> We're stumped for now.
> 

The only idea I can come up with is that pgcrypto was in one of those
dropped schemas (but I know you're saying it was in public).

Are you able to reproduce this? If yes, can you share a reproducer?


regards

-- 
Tomas Vondra






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