Re: [v9.3] Row-Level Security

On 8 October 2012 15:57, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp> wrote:
> The attached patch is a refreshed version towards the latest master branch,
> to fix up patch conflicts.
> Here is no other difference from the previous revision.
>
> Thanks,
>

I had another look at this over the weekend and I found couple of
additional problems (test cases attached):

1). It is possible to define a RLS qual that refers back to the table
that it's defined on, in such a way that causes infinite recursion in
the planner, giving "ERROR:  stack depth limit exceeded". I think it
would be preferable to trap this and report a more meaningful error
back to the user, along similar lines to a self-referencing view.

2). In other cases it is possible to define a RLS qual that refers to
another table with a RLS qual in such a way that the second table's
RLS qual is not checked, thus allowing a user to bypass the security
check.

3). If a RLS qual refers to a view it errors, since the RLS quals are
added after rule expansion, and so the view is not rewritten.

To me this suggests that perhaps the expansion of RLS quals should be
done in the rewriter. I've not thought that through in any detail, but
ISTM that a RIR rule could add a table with a RLS qual, and a RLS qual
could add a relation with a RIR rule that needs expanding, and so the
2 need to be processed together. This could also make use of the
existing recursion-checking code in the rewriter.

Regards,
Dean