Re: 8.4 release planning

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 14:18 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Joshua Brindle <method(at)manicmethod(dot)com> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Right, which is why it's bad for something like a foreign key constraint
> >> to expose the fact that the row does exist after all.
>
> > Once again, this is not an issue for us.
>
> Yes it is an issue

> The question of whether there is a covert channel is only a small part
> of my complaint here. If it's the judgement of security experts that
> that's an acceptable thing, that's fine, it's their turf. But SQL
> behavior is my turf, and I'm not happy with discarding fundamental
> semantic properties.

Why did we bother to invite Joshua here if we aren't going to listen to
him?

Thanks for coming to help Joshua, much appreciated.

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