Re: 8.4 release planning - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From KaiGai Kohei
Subject Re: 8.4 release planning
Date
Msg-id 497E6EAC.6090906@ak.jp.nec.com
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In response to Re: 8.4 release planning  (Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>)
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Jaime Casanova wrote:
>> SE-Linux:  this patch has effectively been in development for 2 years
>> ourside the core process before putting it in; the forked SEPostgres is in
>> use in production. KaiGai has been available for 20 hours a week (or more)
>> to troubleshoot issues and change APIs.  I really don't see what the problem
>> is with committing it.
>>
> 
> it hasn't been testing by ours in different platforms (ie: ubuntu has
> selinux and i want to give it a try, badly enough i have never used
> selinux so this is new to me)...
> 
> nor we have any evidence that it doesn't affect to users that doesn't
> have any variant of selinux (ie: windows)... the real problem here is
> the base of users we enough knowledge of the tool to make some usefull
> tests

It is obvious, if you see the code.
When SELinux is disabled by platform or GUC option, security hooks
works nothing.

Thanks,
-- 
OSS Platform Development Division, NEC
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>


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