Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1268) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1268)
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Msg-id 200812112303.20692.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1268)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1268)  (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>)
Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1268)  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Thursday 11 December 2008 20:32:25 Tom Lane wrote:
> Well, the objection I was raising is that they should control the same
> thing.  Otherwise we are simply inventing an invasive, high-cost,
> nonstandard(*) feature that we have had zero field demand for.

There is certainly a rather big field demand for row-level security.  I'm not 
sure about SELinux integration, though, or which one of the two you were 
referring to.

The trick, of course, is to make it work well.  That would usually require the 
polyinstantiation approach, and I am disappointed that that was apparently 
not chosen here.


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