Re: Proposal of SE-PostgreSQL patches (for CommitFest:Sep)

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Proposal of SE-PostgreSQL patches (for CommitFest:Sep)
Date: 2008-09-23 17:36:26
Message-ID: 200809231736.m8NHaQ309012@momjian.us
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Robert Haas wrote:
> > It's too early to vote. :-)
> >
> > The second and third option have prerequisite.
> > The purpose of them is to match granularity of access controls
> > provided by SE-PostgreSQL and native PostgreSQL. However, I have
> > not seen a clear reason why these different security mechanisms
> > have to have same granuality in access controls.
>
> Have you seen a clear reason why they should NOT have the same granularity?

Agreed. If we implement SE-PostgreSQL row-level security first, we
might find that we have to replace the code once we implement SQL-level
row-level security. If we do SQL-level security first, we can then
adjust it to match what SE-PostgreSQL needs.

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