Stephen Frost wrote: > KaiGai, > > * KaiGai Kohei (kai...@ak.jp.nec.com) wrote: >> So, we may be able to modify the development plan as follows: >> * 2nd CommitFest (15-Sep) >> - security abstraction layer >> (- largeobject permission) >> >> * 3rd CommitFest (15-Nov) >> - basic functionality of SE-PostgreSQL >> >> * 4th CommitFest (15-Jan) >> - full functionality of SE-PostgreSQL >> (row-level controls, filesystem permissions, ...) > > Not to throw water on this right from the get-go, but I think getting > the security abstraction and basic SE-PostgreSQL functionality (based on > existing PG permissions) into 8.5 will be enough of a stretch. > row-level security needs to be implement in PG proper first, before we > can add the SE-PG hooks for it. That's going to be a serious amount of > work by itself, and is something which is extremely unlikely to make > sense to commit that late in the cycle.
It seems to me it is a bit early to conclude what feature will be included into 8.5 and what feature is not so. The above plan is a very rough sketch. Anyway, what I would like to say is I can agree to focus on the security abstraction layer earlier than SE-PostgreSQL feature. -- OSS Platform Development Division, NEC KaiGai Kohei <kai...@ak.jp.nec.com> -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers