Re: Proposal of SE-PostgreSQL patches (for CommitFest:Sep) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Proposal of SE-PostgreSQL patches (for CommitFest:Sep)
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Msg-id 200809231736.m8NHaQ309012@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Proposal of SE-PostgreSQL patches (for CommitFest:Sep)  ("Robert Haas" <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas wrote:
> > It's too early to vote. :-)
> >
> > The second and third option have prerequisite.
> > The purpose of them is to match granularity of access controls
> > provided by SE-PostgreSQL and native PostgreSQL. However, I have
> > not seen a clear reason why these different security mechanisms
> > have to have same granuality in access controls.
> 
> Have you seen a clear reason why they should NOT have the same granularity?

Agreed.  If we implement SE-PostgreSQL row-level security first, we
might find that we have to replace the code once we implement SQL-level
row-level security.  If we do  SQL-level security first, we can then
adjust it to match what SE-PostgreSQL needs.

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