Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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.
Polyinstantiation was just too complex to do at this point:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyinstantiation
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