Re: sepgsql: fix relkind handling on foreign tables - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Kohei KaiGai
Subject Re: sepgsql: fix relkind handling on foreign tables
Date
Msg-id BANLkTimSxLnfgbbnvFSdv4P5+9F0jxvHUQ@mail.gmail.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: sepgsql: fix relkind handling on foreign tables  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: sepgsql: fix relkind handling on foreign tables  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
2011/5/23 Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp> wrote:
>> The attached patch fixes up case handling in foreign tables.
>>
>> Now it didn't assign security label on foreign table on its creation
>> time, and didn't check access rights on the dml hook.
>> This patch fixes these problems; It allows foreign tables default
>> labeling and access checks as db_table object class.
>
> A foreign table is really more like a view, or a function call.  Are
> you sure you want to handle it like a table?
>
It might be a tentative solution, so I'll want to cancel this patch.

Its nature is indeed more similar to function call rather than tables,
but not a function itself. So, it might be a better idea to define its
own object class such as "db_foreign_table" instead of existing
object classes.

Thanks,
--
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Noah Misch
Date:
Subject: Operator families vs. casts
Next
From: Robert Haas
Date:
Subject: Re: sepgsql: fix relkind handling on foreign tables