| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, Joshua Brindle <method(at)manicmethod(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec> |
| Subject: | Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1704) |
| Date: | 2009-03-10 00:45:36 |
| Message-ID: | 1236645936.4649.85.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org |
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On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 20:31 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > http://www.nsa.gov/applications/search/index.cfm?q=se-postgresql
> >
> > It is also part of the Secure OS project out of Japan (as far as I can
> > tell).
> >
> > I know we are a little uncomfortable here but KaiGai-San (forgive me if
> > I type that wrong) has proven to be a contributor in his own right,
> > jumping over every hurdle we have presented him. He is obviously
> > sticking around for a while.
>
> KaiGai-San also submitted a patch for an unrelated bug today. :-)
I also found some completely external references to it:
http://lwn.net/Articles/242087/
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/enterprise-linux/se-postgres-tightens-sql-security/
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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