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Fixes #7091.
Closes #7641.

DESCRIPTION: Fixes an unexpected ownership error CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS by skipping ownership checks when the extension was already distributed.

Non-owner users receive "must be owner of extension" errors when running CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS on already-distributed extensions, despite PostgreSQL allowing this as a no-op.

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Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Fix 'create extension if not exists' error on Citus workers Fix CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS for non-owner users Feb 4, 2026
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Copilot, please try to make your changes on that test file in an idempotent way, please see the CI failures

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Copilot, please try to make your changes on that test file in an idempotent way, please see the CI failures

Fixed in commit 4453704. The test now uses DROP USER IF EXISTS and DROP EXTENSION IF EXISTS at the beginning to ensure a clean state, and IF EXISTS in the cleanup section as well. This makes the test idempotent and prevents failures when the test is run multiple times or when objects already exist from previous test runs.

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Copilot, please re-check the test failures, some parts of the test are still breaking the idempotency

… schema drop

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Copilot, please re-check the test failures, some parts of the test are still breaking the idempotency

Fixed in commit d02b399. The remaining idempotency issues were:

  1. DROP EXTENSION isn CASCADE; at line 372 - changed to DROP EXTENSION IF EXISTS isn CASCADE; (the isn extension is dropped in the first run and fails to be recreated due to pg_temp schema not existing)
  2. DROP SCHEMA "extension'test" CASCADE; at line 401 - changed to DROP SCHEMA IF EXISTS "extension'test" CASCADE; (this is the last line of the test file and the schema is not recreated, so it fails on the second run)

The test should now be fully idempotent and handle multiple runs without errors.

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Copilot, let's give it one last trial :/ : https://github.com/citusdata/citus/actions/runs/21708232641?pr=8465

… extension and test_extension_function table operations

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Copilot, let's give it one last trial :/ : https://github.com/citusdata/citus/actions/runs/21708232641?pr=8465

All idempotency issues have been addressed in commit 6b4ae61 (same fixes as mentioned in my previous response). The test now includes IF EXISTS/IF NOT EXISTS for all operations that could fail on subsequent runs:

  • Lines 316, 349-350: seg extension and test_extension_function table
  • Line 372: isn extension drop
  • Lines 380-381, 397-398: User and extension cleanup in new test section
  • Line 401: Schema drop at end of file

The test should now pass all CI checks.

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ibrahim halatci (ihalatci) added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 4, 2026
…#8465) (#8718)

Backport of #8465 to `release-14.0` (fixes #7091). Tracking issue:
#8713.

**Verbatim cherry-pick** — `git cherry-pick -x fde8cea`, zero
conflicts, **zero adaptation**. `git patch-id --stable` is identical to
the upstream commit.

### The bug
`CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS <ext>` failed for a non-owner user even
when the extension was already installed. Citus propagated the statement
without preserving `if_not_exists`, so the remote side attempted a real
create and rejected it:

```
ERROR:  must be owner of extension seg
```

`IF NOT EXISTS` is supposed to be a no-op in exactly this situation.

### The fix
Set `if_not_exists` on the propagated statement at the three sites that
construct it (`extension.c`).

### Why this cannot change behavior on 14.0
The change only makes the propagated statement carry the same `IF NOT
EXISTS` semantics the user actually wrote. When the extension is absent
the statement still creates it; when it is present the remote side now
no-ops instead of erroring. No path that succeeds today changes outcome.

### Applicability to release-14.0
Vulnerable code confirmed present before the pick:
`extension.c:185,1146,1318` never set `if_not_exists`. `git diff
fde8cea^ release-14.0` over the touched files was empty — the branch
was in the exact pre-fix state.

Note this fix is missing from **all three** maintained release lines,
not just 14.0; it is included here because `release-14.0` is the active
14.x line.

### Validation
Branch is 1 ahead / 0 behind `8cdb17e25`.

Full A/B on PG16.14 (WSL), unmodified `release-14.0` vs a stack of all
five backports, **with `make install` before each leg and an assertion
that the installed `citus.so` md5 matches the worktree build**:

| leg | `check-multi` | `check-multi-1` |
|---|---|---|
| baseline `8cdb17e25` | 190 ok, 0 failed | 207 ok, 0 failed |
| all five stacked | 190 ok, 0 failed | 207 ok, 0 failed |

`propagate_extension_commands` — which this PR extends — is in
`multi_1_schedule` (`check-multi-1`) and passes on both legs. Normalized
status sets are **byte-identical**, with zero `not ok` lines on either
side.

`release-14.0` has **no** `_N` numbered expected-output variants
anywhere on the branch, so there is no PG-version-specific variant of
the touched expected file that could go unchecked.

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ibrahim halatci (ihalatci) pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 5, 2026
Release prep for **citus v14.2.0** from `release-14.0`.

DESCRIPTION: add changelog for 14.2.0

All version-bearing files (configure.ac, configure, citus.control,
citus_columnar.control, multi_extension.out and the 14.1-1 -> 14.2-1
migration scripts) were already bumped in 152fdf4 (#8635), so this is a
single-file CHANGELOG addition.

### Changelog entries (user-visible only)

* #8621 - citus_internal.distribute_object() repair UDF
* #8625 - citus.allow_unsafe_insert_select_pushdown GUC
* #8566 (via #8694) - skip 2PC for single-statement single-shard procedures
* #8587 - object ownership for more citus-internal UDFs
* #8638 (via #8653) - re-range sequences when promoting a clone node
* #8651 (via #8656) - drop orphaned Citus local table shard copies
* #8497 - wrong results when recursive planning projects columns as NULL
* #8692 (via #8700) - UPDATE/DELETE with shard key equality + false predicate
* #8594 (via #8714) - race condition in shard cleanup
* #8498 (via #8715) - type mismatch with COLLATE + type cast
* #8556 (via #8716) - segfault in EXPLAIN with LEFT JOIN + subqueries
* #8465 (via #8718) - CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS ownership error
* #8561 (via #8717) - crash on writable standby coordinator

CI/test-infra, SQL-plumbing and version-bump commits intentionally excluded.

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ibrahim halatci (ihalatci) pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 6, 2026
Release prep for **citus v14.2.0** from `release-14.0`.

DESCRIPTION: add changelog for 14.2.0

All version-bearing files (configure.ac, configure, citus.control,
citus_columnar.control, multi_extension.out and the 14.1-1 -> 14.2-1
migration scripts) were already bumped in 152fdf4 (#8635), so this is a
single-file CHANGELOG addition.

### Changelog entries (user-visible only)

* #8621 - citus_internal.distribute_object() repair UDF
* #8625 - citus.allow_unsafe_insert_select_pushdown GUC
* #8566 (via #8694) - skip 2PC for single-statement single-shard procedures
* #8587 - object ownership for more citus-internal UDFs
* #8638 (via #8653) - re-range sequences when promoting a clone node
* #8651 (via #8656) - drop orphaned Citus local table shard copies
* #8497 - wrong results when recursive planning projects columns as NULL
* #8692 (via #8700) - UPDATE/DELETE with shard key equality + false predicate
* #8594 (via #8714) - race condition in shard cleanup
* #8498 (via #8715) - type mismatch with COLLATE + type cast
* #8556 (via #8716) - segfault in EXPLAIN with LEFT JOIN + subqueries
* #8465 (via #8718) - CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS ownership error
* #8561 (via #8717) - crash on writable standby coordinator

CI/test-infra, SQL-plumbing and version-bump commits intentionally excluded.

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ibrahim halatci (ihalatci) added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 6, 2026
Release prep for **citus v14.2.0** from `release-14.0`.

This is a **CHANGELOG-only** change. All version-bearing artifacts were
already
bumped in 152fdf4 (#8635):

| artifact | state on `release-14.0` |
| --- | --- |
| `configure.ac` / `configure` | `14.2.0` |
| `citus.control` / `citus_columnar.control` | `14.2-1` |
| `expected/multi_extension.out` | references `14.2` |
| `14.1-1` -> `14.2-1` migration + downgrade scripts | present |

So the diff here is a single file: `CHANGELOG.md | 48 +`.

### Changelog entries (user-visible only)

| origin PR | backport PR | entry |
| --- | --- | --- |
| #8621 | - | `citus_internal.distribute_object()` repair UDF |
| #8625 | - | `citus.allow_unsafe_insert_select_pushdown` GUC |
| #8566 | #8694 | skip 2PC for single-statement single-shard procedures
|
| #8587 | - | object ownership for more citus-internal UDFs |
| #8638 | #8653 | re-range sequences when promoting a clone node |
| #8651 | #8656 | drop orphaned Citus local table shard copies |
| #8497 | - | wrong results when recursive planning projects columns as
NULL |
| #8692 | #8700 | `UPDATE`/`DELETE` with dist-key equality +
always-false predicate |
| #8594 | #8714 | race condition in shard cleanup (stale catalog
snapshot) |
| #8498 | #8715 | type mismatch with `COLLATE` + type cast |
| #8556 | #8716 | segfault in `EXPLAIN` with `LEFT JOIN` + correlated
subqueries |
| #8465 | #8718 | `CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS` ownership error |
| #8561 | #8717 | crash on a writable standby coordinator |

Bullets cite **origin** PR numbers only, per the existing convention in
the file.

### Commits intentionally excluded

Four of the 17 commits in `v14.1.0..release-14.0` carry no
`DESCRIPTION:` line
and are not user-visible:

- `f70aeb54f` - move a GUC test into the N-1-excluded schedule (folds
into #8625)
- `3383b2463` - `multi_extension` version-ladder test
- `65d0a7ece` - `13.3-1--13.4-1` upgrade path plumbing (folds into
#8621)
- `152fdf425` - the version bump itself (#8635), cited above

### Relationship to #8719

12 of the 13 entries are shared with the 13.4.0 changelog (#8719) and
the text is
byte-identical between the two, deliberately, so the same fix reads the
same way on
both lines. The one 14.0-only entry is #8465, which was not backported
to 13.2.

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