Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1268) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1268)
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Msg-id 7088.1229008291@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1268)  (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>)
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KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp> writes:
> I have a plan to add a new field (declared as "int2 relrowacl") into
> pg_class to show what column stores its Row-level ACLs.

If you want the column to be "hidden" in the same way that system
columns are, I'm afraid this is a pretty bad idea.  There are way too
many places that would require weird hacks to keep from treating a
positive-numbered column as a regular user column.
        regards, tom lane


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