Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> KaiGai Kohei wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> I think we could use row-level access control to prevent people from
>>> seeing databases they should not see in pg_database.
>> The row-level database ACL which I submitted yesterdat does not allow
>> to assign ACLs to tuples within system catalogs (like pg_database),
>> because it is unclear who should be the owner of tuples.
>>
>> As I noted at the previous message, it considers the owner of the table
>> as the owner of the tuples due to several reasons. However, some of system
>> catalogs have its owner field like "pg_proc.proowner".
>> This limitation is not a fundamental one, so we can remove it soon.
>>
>> But, who should be the owner of tuples within system catalogs which have
>> some kind of "owner" field.
>
> The Postgres super-user should be the owner of all system tables.

OK, I'll update it soon.
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