Re: [PATCH] Store Extension Options

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello(at)gmail(dot)com>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Store Extension Options
Date: 2014-03-13 14:27:21
Message-ID: 20140313142721.GI8268@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-03-13 10:24:09 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > But security labels are a nice idea, will think about it. AFAICs there's
> > no builtin subdivision within the label for one provider which is a bit
> > of a shame but solvable. The biggest issue I see is that it essentially
> > seems to require that the provider is in
> > {shared,local}_preload_libraries? You can't restore into a server
> > otherwise afaics?
>
> Well, if you want to validate the settings then you pretty much have to
> require that in some form.

If there were a CREATE SECURITY LABEL PROVIDER or something, with the
catalog pointing to a validator function, we wouldn't necessarily...

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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