| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: Adding support for SE-Linux security |
| Date: | 2009-12-07 18:10:55 |
| Message-ID: | 20091207181055.GJ3552@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Martijn van Oosterhout escribió:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:09:59PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > This is how the code was developed initially -- the patch was called
> > PGACE and SELinux was but the first implementation on top of it.
>
> I find it astonishing that after SE-PgSQL was implemented on top of a
> pluggable system (PGACE) and this system was removed at request of the
> "community" [1] that at this late phase people are suggesting it needs
> to be added back again. Havn't the goalposts been moved enough times?
Yeah. I think the idle discussions here have created more work
themselves than the hypothetical maintenance work that would be spent on
this (undoubtely useful) feature.
> (It seems we've gone from a patch that had been around for years
> solving actual people's problems to a patch which does barely anything
> and we don't know whether it solves anybodies problem).
Agreed :-(
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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