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

>> Peter made an excellent point a few emails upthread: there seemed to
>> be consensus in the September CommitFest that we needed SQL-level
>> support for row and column level security before we talked about
>> implementing those features as part of SELinux.  I don't see that
>> we're any closer to that goal than we were then.  There has been some
>> progress made on column-level permissions, but the patch is back in
>> "waiting for author" limbo, and the only alternatives for SQL-level
>> row-level permissions is to have them INSTEAD OF SELinux-based
>> row-level permissions.
>
> I don't understand -- why wouldn't we just have two columns, one for
> plain row-level security and another for whatever security system the
> platforms happens to offer?  If we were to follow that route, we could
> have row-level security first, extracting the feature from the current
> patch; and the rest of PGACE could be a much smaller patch implementing
> the rest of the stuff, with SELinux support for now with an eye to
> implementing Solaris TX or whatever.

Well, I think we should do exactly what you're proposing, so don't ask me.

...Robert