Stephen Frost wrote: > And, just to go full circle, row-level access controls are exactly what > the other enterprise RDBMSs have and is what is used in these security > circles today. One of the major issues, as I understand it, is to be > able to use stock applications with multiple security levels where the > application doesn't know (or care about) the security level. Doing that > through views and partitions and triggers and whatnot for each and every > application that is run on these systems will be a big hurdle to those > users, if it ends up being workable at all.
That seems to me to be a shortcoming of the partition system and a good TODO for the future partitioning improvements. Why shouldn't be just as easy to make sure a row ends up in the right partition as opposed to making sure it's tagged with right row-level ACLs. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
