Re: 8.4 release planning - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: 8.4 release planning
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Msg-id 20090127195554.GQ8123@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: 8.4 release planning  (Joshua Brindle <method@manicmethod.com>)
Responses Re: 8.4 release planning  (Joshua Brindle <method@manicmethod.com>)
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* Joshua Brindle (method@manicmethod.com) wrote:
> They are separate. If you look at the patches you'll see a pgace part,
> this is where the core interfaces to the security backends, and you'll
> see a rowacl backend and an sepgsql backend.

Right, guess it wasn't clear to me that the PGACE bits for row-level
access control could be used independently of SELinux (and maybe even on
systems that don't have SELinux..?).

> Personally I'd like to see all of the access control moved out to use
> pgace, including the standard DAC permissions but I doubt that would
> never happen.

Yeah...  That's a whole 'nother discussion.
Stephen

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