| From: | Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Joshua Brindle <method(at)manicmethod(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: How to get SE-PostgreSQL acceptable |
| Date: | 2009-01-28 22:25:20 |
| Message-ID: | 4980DB50.8050105@cheapcomplexdevices.com |
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Stephen Frost wrote:
> And, just to go full circle, row-level access controls are exactly what
> the other enterprise RDBMSs have and is what is used in these security
> circles today. One of the major issues, as I understand it, is to be
> able to use stock applications with multiple security levels where the
> application doesn't know (or care about) the security level. Doing that
> through views and partitions and triggers and whatnot for each and every
> application that is run on these systems will be a big hurdle to those
> users, if it ends up being workable at all.
That seems to me to be a shortcoming of the partition system and a good
TODO for the future partitioning improvements.
Why shouldn't be just as easy to make sure a row ends up in the
right partition as opposed to making sure it's tagged with right
row-level ACLs.
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