Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1268)

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "KaiGai Kohei" <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "KaiGai Kohei" <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1268)
Date: 2008-12-12 16:57:30
Message-ID: 87ljuls551.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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"Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

> Obviously sandwhiching two values in one column is not going to work.
> The only question here is whether it's important to simultaneously
> support both DAC and MAC. As far as I can see, KaiGai is the only one
> arguing that we don't need to do that (except for Tom, who doesn't
> like either feature). If anyone else agrees with his position, now
> would be a good time to speak up.

Well maybe I'm not following. I think it's strange to need two different
row-based security methods. Can you give some examples of how you would use
these two mechanisms together?

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Gregory Stark
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