Re: Review of Row Level Security

On 27 March 2013 10:57, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp> wrote:
> 2013/3/25 Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:
>> On 19 March 2013 15:08, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp> wrote:
>>
>>> It is much helpful if someone give me comments around these
>>> arguable portions from the standpoint with fresh eyes.
>>
>> My feeling at this point is that I don't think I should commit this
>> and related patches without more work.
>>
>> I certainly have time and willingness to do that in the next release
>> cycle, but I feel like we need substantially longer to confirm that
>> this is as rock solid as it needs to be.
>>
>> With everybody's permission, I'd like to move this to the next CF,
>> with apologies to KaiGai.
>>
> I have to admit it will become time to move v9.4 development cycle
> soon, and row-level security patch still needs some more works to
> merge into the core.
> At least, it does not stand on 40km point at marathon.
>
> One thing we need to consider is, the current version of RLS patch
> has cut-down functionality about writer side on INSERT / UPDATE
> commands. So, we anyway needed to work on this feature on v9.4
> development cycle.
> So, I can agree to move this patch to the v9.4 development cycle.
> Also, I'd like to have discussion for this feature in earlier half of
> v9.4 to keep time for the remaining features, such as check on
> writer-side, integration with selinux, and so on.

Thanks for your hard work, and understanding.

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