Re: Visibility Groups

From: "Jochem van Dieten" <jochemd(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Visibility Groups
Date: 2008-08-07 10:55:56
Message-ID: f96a9b830808070355ic6775a5x4663c86d3ded0907@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Simon Riggs wrote:
> I propose creating "Visibility Groups" that *explicitly* limit the
> ability of a transaction to access data outside its visibility group(s).

Doesn't every transaction need to access data from the catalogs?
Wouldn't the inclusion of a catalogs visibility group in every
transaction negate any potential benefits?

> Once set, any attempt to lock an object outside of a transactions
> defined visibility_groups will result in an error:

Or is this about locking and not about data access?

Jochem

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