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

From KaiGai Kohei
Subject Re: SE-PostgreSQL Specifications
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Msg-id 4A77B0B4.1070909@ak.jp.nec.com
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In response to Re: SE-PostgreSQL Specifications  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Responses Re: SE-PostgreSQL Specifications  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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David Fetter wrote:
> 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

My concern is "access_control_" is a bit long for prefixes,
but "ac_" is too short to represent what it is doing.

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


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