Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Row-Level Security Policies (RLS) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Stephen Frost wrote:
> Alvaro,
> 
> * Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> > What do we need RowSecurityPolicy->policy_id for?  It seems to me that
> > it is only used to determine whether the policy is the "default deny"
> > one, so that it can later be removed if a hook adds a different one.
> > This seems contrived as well as under-documented.  Why isn't a boolean
> > flag sufficient?
> 
> Thanks for taking a look!
> 
> It's also used during relcache updates (see equalPolicy()).

Hmm, but the policy name is unique also, right?  So the policy_id check
is redundant ...

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