Martijn van Oosterhout escribió:
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:09:59PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > This is how the code was developed initially -- the patch was called
> > PGACE and SELinux was but the first implementation on top of it.
>
> I find it astonishing that after SE-PgSQL was implemented on top of a
> pluggable system (PGACE) and this system was removed at request of the
> "community" [1] that at this late phase people are suggesting it needs
> to be added back again. Havn't the goalposts been moved enough times?
Yeah. I think the idle discussions here have created more work
themselves than the hypothetical maintenance work that would be spent on
this (undoubtely useful) feature.
> (It seems we've gone from a patch that had been around for years
> solving actual people's problems to a patch which does barely anything
> and we don't know whether it solves anybodies problem).
Agreed :-(
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