Re: add a MAC check for TRUNCATE

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Yuli Khodorkovskiy <yuli(dot)khodorkovskiy(at)crunchydata(dot)com>
Cc: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)heterodb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Joshua Brindle <joshua(dot)brindle(at)crunchydata(dot)com>, Mike P <mike(dot)palmiotto(at)crunchydata(dot)com>
Subject: Re: add a MAC check for TRUNCATE
Date: 2019-09-25 21:49:15
Message-ID: 20190925214915.GA29665@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2019-Sep-25, Yuli Khodorkovskiy wrote:

> Hi Alvaro,
>
> I have attached the updated patches which should rebase.

Great, thanks.

> Since all existing DAC checks should have MAC, should these patches be
> considered a bug fix and therefore back patched?

I don't know the answer to that. My impression from earlier discussion
is that this was seen as a non-backpatchable change, but I defer to Joe
on that as committer. If it were up to me, the ultimate question would
be: would such a change adversely affect existing running systems?

Thanks,

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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