Fix pg_dump/pg_restore to emit REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW commands last.
Because we push all ACL (i.e. GRANT/REVOKE) restore steps to the end, materialized view refreshes were occurring while the permissions on referenced objects were still at defaults. This led to failures if, say, an MV owned by user A reads from a table owned by user B, even if B had granted the necessary privileges to A. We've had multiple complaints about that type of restore failure, most recently from Jordan Gigov. The ideal fix for this would be to start treating ACLs as dependency- sortable objects, rather than hard-wiring anything about their dump order (the existing approach is a messy kluge dating to commit dc0e76ca). But that's going to be a rather major change, and it certainly wouldn't lead to a back-patchable fix. As a short-term solution, convert the existing two-pass hack (ie, normal objects then ACLs) to a three-pass hack, ie, normal objects then ACLs then matview refreshes. Because this happens in RestoreArchive(), it will also fix the problem when restoring from an existing archive-format dump. (Note this means that if a matview refresh would have failed under the permissions prevailing at dump time, it'll fail during restore as well. We'll define that as user error rather than something we should try to work around.) To avoid performance loss in parallel restore, we need the matview refreshes to still be parallelizable. Hence, clean things up enough so that both ACLs and matviews are handled by the parallel restore infrastructure, instead of reverting back to serial restore for ACLs. There is still a final serial step, but it shouldn't normally have to do anything; it's only there to try to recover if we get stuck due to some problem like unresolved circular dependencies. Patch by me, but it owes something to an earlier attempt by Kevin Grittner. Back-patch to 9.3 where materialized views were introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28572.1500912583@sss.pgh.pa.us
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