Re: PostgreSQL 8.4 development plan

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> Is it technically possible to set permissions on a per-page basis?

Technically possible?  Of course.  It's sure not easy to do, though; the 
Mediawiki team considers having any real ACL structure added onto their 
code a non-feature and last time I checked you had to patch the source.

I'd say it's really more trouble than it's worth here.  It's not like the 
developer site is open to the whole world or something.  The number of 
people capable of noticing and reverting bad changes in a critical, 
popular page vastly outnumbers those likely to do something stupid (with 
all the stuff I've done on the developer's wiki I don't think I've had to 
revert a change bigger than a grammatical error so far).

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