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

From Gregory Stark
Subject Re: How to get SE-PostgreSQL acceptable
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Msg-id 87tz7iqsze.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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In response to Re: How to get SE-PostgreSQL acceptable  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm wondering if this problem could be solved with a sort of
> mark-and-sweep garbage collection: 
>...
> Then you can write something which goes through and sets all the rows
> to false and then visits every row of every table in the database and
> forces OID lookups on the security ID of each.  When you get done, any
> rows that still say false are unreferenced and can be killed.

This sounds awfully similar to the bitmap index vacuum problem. I wonder if
security labels could be implemented as some kind of funky special index.

Just thinking out loud. I don't have a well-formed idea based on this.

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