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

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Thursday 11 December 2008 20:32:25 Tom Lane wrote:
> > Well, the objection I was raising is that they should control the same
> > thing.  Otherwise we are simply inventing an invasive, high-cost,
> > nonstandard(*) feature that we have had zero field demand for.
> 
> There is certainly a rather big field demand for row-level security.  I'm not 
> sure about SELinux integration, though, or which one of the two you were 
> referring to.
> 
> The trick, of course, is to make it work well.  That would usually require the 
> polyinstantiation approach, and I am disappointed that that was apparently 
> not chosen here.

Polyinstantiation was just too complex to do at this point:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyinstantiation

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