Re: SE-PostgreSQL Specifications

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Greg Williamson <gwilliamson39(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Sam Mason <sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk>, Joshua Brindle <method(at)manicmethod(dot)com>
Subject: Re: SE-PostgreSQL Specifications
Date: 2009-08-04 11:03:06
Message-ID: 20090804110306.GK23840@tamriel.snowman.net
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* KaiGai Kohei (kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com) wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:18:55PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > Just generally, "access control" is a great way to describe what's
> > actually happening here. That people conflate access control with
> > security has resulted in a number of disasters :P
>
> My concern is "access_control_" is a bit long for prefixes,
> but "ac_" is too short to represent what it is doing.

pg_ac_? Still shorter than 'security_', uses the pg_ prefix, which we
use in a number of other places, and has 'ac' in it..

Stephen

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