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

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: SE-PostgreSQL Specifications
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Msg-id 20090804110306.GK23840@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: SE-PostgreSQL Specifications  (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>)
Responses Re: SE-PostgreSQL Specifications  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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* KaiGai Kohei (kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com) wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:18:55PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > 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
>
> My concern is "access_control_" is a bit long for prefixes,
> but "ac_" is too short to represent what it is doing.

pg_ac_?  Still shorter than 'security_', uses the pg_ prefix, which we
use in a number of other places, and has 'ac' in it..
Stephen

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