Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches
Date: 2008-09-26 01:41:00
Message-ID: 200809260141.m8Q1f0200617@momjian.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> 4. User charlie revokes alice's membership in admin.
>
> Now what? Alice's FK constraint is violated, according to the rules
> KaiGai proposes. Shall REVOKE have to grovel through every table in the
> database looking for possible violations ... and of course locking the
> entire DB against writes while it does it? That's not gonna fly. I
> also note that the failure would expose knowledge of the contents of BT
> and AT to charlie, which might not be thought desirable either.

I assume Alice now gets an error on the query that references the
now-invisible foreign key --- that sounds reasonable to me.

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