Re: [v9.4] row level security

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, "ktm(at)rice(dot)edu" <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PgHacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [v9.4] row level security
Date: 2013-11-04 15:17:32
Message-ID: CA+TgmoZS46fGTHCMo1FpNiBYDU7Wrx7R8PL+48Xc7UcVCsuaUA@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> On 09/04/2013 11:22 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> AFAICT, to deal with update/delete the RLS patch needs to constrain order
>>> of qual application without the crutch of having a separate level of
>>> subquery; and it's that behavior that I have zero confidence in, either
>>> as to whether it works as submitted or as to our odds of not breaking it
>>> in the future.
>
>> Wouldn't CASE do that job, albeit in a somewhat ugly manner, and also
>> protect against malicious RLS functions?
>
> You mean wrap all the query quals in a CASE? Sure, if you didn't mind
> totally destroying any optimization possibilities. If you did that,
> every table scan would become a seqscan and every join a nestloop.

I'd still like to here what's wrong with what I said here:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+TgmoYr1PHw3X9vnVuWDcfXkzK2p_jhtWc0fV2Q58NEgcxyTA@mail.gmail.com

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