Re: SE-PostgreSQL Specifications - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: SE-PostgreSQL Specifications
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Msg-id 20090804034724.GH3399@fetter.org
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In response to Re: SE-PostgreSQL Specifications  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: SE-PostgreSQL Specifications  (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>)
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On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:18:55PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> KaiGai,
> 
> * KaiGai Kohei (kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com) wrote:
> > I began to describe the list of abstraction layer functions (but not completed yet):
> >   http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SEPostgreSQL_Abstraction
> 
> I'm not really a huge fan of 'security_' as a prefix for these
> functions, but I don't have a better suggestion right now.

Just generally, "access control" is a great way to describe what's
actually happening here.  That people conflate access control with
security has resulted in a number of disasters :P

Cheers,
David.
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