Re: [v9.1] sepgsql - userspace access vector cache

From: Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga(at)gmail(dot)com>, PgHacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [v9.1] sepgsql - userspace access vector cache
Date: 2011-07-18 20:48:13
Message-ID: CADyhKSX=Qyvia9goX4xoBVf_q88FHD0E2Pjej=nAXtoEZ6CzHA@mail.gmail.com
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2011/7/18 Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp> wrote:
>>> 3) sepgsql is currently a bit hard to find in the documentation.
>>> www.postgresql.org website search doesn't find sepgsql and selinux only
>>> refers to an old PostgreSQL redhat bug in 2005 on bugzilla.redhat.com. I had
>>> to manually remember it was a contrib module. Also sepgsql isn't linked to
>>> at the SECURITY LABEL page. At the moment I'm unsure if I have seen all
>>> sepgsql related sgml-based documentation.
>>>
>> Improvement of documentation is an issue.
>> The wiki.postgresql.org should be an appropriate place, maybe.
>>
>> The reason why SECURITY LABEL does not point to sepgsql.sgml is
>> that it is general purpose infrastructure for all the upcoming label based
>> security mechanism, not only sepgsql.
>> It was our consensus in v9.1 development.
>
> Actually, I think it's that way mostly because we committed the
> SECURITY LABEL stuff first.  I'd be in favor of adding some kind of
> cross-link.
>
Hmm. OK, I'll submit a patch to update this documentation stuff tomorrow,
including an explicit -D option as Yeb mentioned.

Thanks,
--
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>

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