Re: 8.4 release planning - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: 8.4 release planning
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Msg-id 20090127193211.GP8123@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: 8.4 release planning  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: 8.4 release planning  (Joshua Brindle <method@manicmethod.com>)
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* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> This seems to me to be exactly parallel to deciding that SELinux should
> control only table/column permissions within SQL; an approach that would
> be enormously less controversial, less expensive, and more reliable than
> what SEPostgres tries to do.

While also ignoring a feature that is available, and used by these same
security communities, in other enterprise RDBMSs...

http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1743

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/multisec.mspx

It's not codified in the SQL spec (yet..) that I saw, and maybe we could
seperate out the SE bits from the row-level bits, but I'm really not
sure I see the value in doing that..
Stephen

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