| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp> |
| Subject: | Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1268) |
| Date: | 2008-12-12 03:13:27 |
| Message-ID: | 200812120313.mBC3DRG20795@momjian.us |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Thursday 11 December 2008 20:32:25 Tom Lane wrote:
> > Well, the objection I was raising is that they should control the same
> > thing. Otherwise we are simply inventing an invasive, high-cost,
> > nonstandard(*) feature that we have had zero field demand for.
>
> There is certainly a rather big field demand for row-level security. I'm not
> sure about SELinux integration, though, or which one of the two you were
> referring to.
>
> The trick, of course, is to make it work well. That would usually require the
> polyinstantiation approach, and I am disappointed that that was apparently
> not chosen here.
Polyinstantiation was just too complex to do at this point:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyinstantiation
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