Re: Proposal of SE-PostgreSQL patches (for CommitFest:Sep)

Robert Haas wrote:
> > I think the answer is yes, because (as others have said) if we ever want
> > to have SQL-level per-row permissions, then we can implement them with
> > no change to the patch currently in discussion.
> 
> If that's true, it weighs somewhat in favor of accepting this patch,
> but how sure are we that it's really the case?  If you only have one
> implementation sitting on top of your abstraction layer, it's hard to
> know whether you've implemented a general framework for doing X or
> merely an interface that happens to suit the particular flavor of X
> that you want to do today.

Yes, that is my point, and SE-Linux is just Linux, meaning it is
OS-specific, making it even less generally useful.

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