Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1386)

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:44 AM, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> wrote:
> > BTW, what is the currect status of my patches?
> > I guess you have many comments in the five patches, because they are a bit
> > large to be commited obviously.
> > Could you tell me, even if these are not comprehensive ones.
> 
> I haven't looked at the patches, but one thing I'm concerned about is
> the fact that it seems we still don't have a working implementation of
> non-SEPostgresql column-level privileges.  Apparently, the latest
> patch set from Stephen Frost doesn't handle those permissions when
> joins are involved, which presumably means that it is not committable.

Yes, this certainly is going to be an issue.  The SE-PostgreSQL patch
gives us SQL and SE-level row permissions, but only SE-level column
permissions (because SQL-level is coming from another patch).

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