Re: How to get SE-PostgreSQL acceptable - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: How to get SE-PostgreSQL acceptable
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Msg-id 603c8f070901281935h763ba592o1b67116fb71a01ab@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: How to get SE-PostgreSQL acceptable  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: How to get SE-PostgreSQL acceptable  (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>)
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> Robert,
>
> * Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
>> pg_security (which I really think out to be renamed to
>> pg_selinux_context or something, and make a new table if we someday
>> support Trusted Solaris or whatever).
>
> Err, this doesn't really make sense if we're doing row-level security,
> that's not something which is tied to SELinux or Trusted Solaris.  Of
> course, it's likely we'll need such a pg_selinux_context table or
> something too..  Or maybe pg_security can be pg_rls instead.  Just
> wanted to avoid confusion over this point..  Assuming Peter's approach
> is the path that is generally agreed upon by core..

I don't think there's anything about pg_security that is specific to
row-level security.

...Robert


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