Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1268)

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1268)
Date: 2008-12-13 10:27:34
Message-ID: 200812131227.36500.peter_e@gmx.net
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On Friday 12 December 2008 19:09:26 Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I don't understand -- why wouldn't we just have two columns, one for
> plain row-level security and another for whatever security system the
> platforms happens to offer?  If we were to follow that route, we could
> have row-level security first, extracting the feature from the current
> patch; and the rest of PGACE could be a much smaller patch implementing
> the rest of the stuff, with SELinux support for now with an eye to
> implementing Solaris TX or whatever.

Exactly.

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