Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches
Date: 2008-09-26 00:12:26
Message-ID: 1368.1222387946@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Here is how I think SQL-level row permissions would work:

> We already have an optional OID system column that can be specified
> during table creation (WITH OIDS). We could have another optional oid
> column (WITH ROW SECURITY) called security_context which would store the
> oid of the role that can see the row; if the oid is zero (InvalidOid),
> anyone can see it. SE-PostgreSQL would default to WITH ROW SECURITY and
> use the oid to look up strings in pg_security.

This is just a different syntax for KaiGai's label storage
implementation. It doesn't really answer any of the hard questions,
like what the heck is the behavior of foreign keys.

regards, tom lane

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