Re: 8.4 release planning

From: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>
To: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(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 02:17:16
Message-ID: 497E6EAC.6090906@ak.jp.nec.com
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Jaime Casanova wrote:
>> SE-Linux: this patch has effectively been in development for 2 years
>> ourside the core process before putting it in; the forked SEPostgres is in
>> use in production. KaiGai has been available for 20 hours a week (or more)
>> to troubleshoot issues and change APIs. I really don't see what the problem
>> is with committing it.
>>
>
> it hasn't been testing by ours in different platforms (ie: ubuntu has
> selinux and i want to give it a try, badly enough i have never used
> selinux so this is new to me)...
>
> nor we have any evidence that it doesn't affect to users that doesn't
> have any variant of selinux (ie: windows)... the real problem here is
> the base of users we enough knowledge of the tool to make some usefull
> tests

It is obvious, if you see the code.
When SELinux is disabled by platform or GUC option, security hooks
works nothing.

Thanks,
--
OSS Platform Development Division, NEC
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>

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