Re: 8.4 release planning

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Joshua Brindle <method(at)manicmethod(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 8.4 release planning
Date: 2009-01-27 19:32:11
Message-ID: 20090127193211.GP8123@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> This seems to me to be exactly parallel to deciding that SELinux should
> control only table/column permissions within SQL; an approach that would
> be enormously less controversial, less expensive, and more reliable than
> what SEPostgres tries to do.

While also ignoring a feature that is available, and used by these same
security communities, in other enterprise RDBMSs...

http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1743

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/multisec.mspx

It's not codified in the SQL spec (yet..) that I saw, and maybe we could
seperate out the SE bits from the row-level bits, but I'm really not
sure I see the value in doing that..

Stephen

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