Re: 8.4 release planning - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: 8.4 release planning
Date
Msg-id 200901272232.50676.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: 8.4 release planning  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: 8.4 release planning  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Re: 8.4 release planning  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: 8.4 release planning  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Tuesday 27 January 2009 16:36:50 Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Peter Eisentraut (peter_e@gmx.net) wrote:
> > As one of the earlier reviewers, I think the design is OK, but the way
> > the implementation is presented was not acceptable, and very little has
> > been accomplished in terms of reacting to our comments.  For example,
> > where is the SQL row security feature, which should have been designed,
> > implemented, and committed separately, in the opinion of most
> > commentaries.
>
> Eh?  Are you thinking of column-level privileges, which was committed
> last week?

No.

> The SQL spec doesn't define row-level security, and coming 
> up with something willy-nilly on our own doesn't really strike me as the
> best approach.

Exactly.  But there is plenty of discussion on that elsewhere.


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