Robert Haas wrote: > Actually, we tried that already, in a previous iteration of this > discussion. Someone actually materialized and commented on a few > things. The problem, as I remember it, was that they didn't know much > about PostgreSQL, so we didn't get very far with it. Unfortunately, I > can't find the relevant email thread at the moment. > > In fact, we've tried about everything with these patches. Tom > reviewed them, Bruce reviewed them, Peter reviewed them, I reviewed > them, Stephen Frost reviewed them, Heikki took at least a brief look > at them, and I think there were a few other people, too. The first > person who I can recall being relatively happy with any version of > this patch was Stephen Frost, commenting on the access control > framework that we suggested KaiGai try to separate from the main body > of the patch to break it into more managable chunks. That patch was > summarily rejected by Tom for what I believe were valid reasons. In > other words, in 18 months of trying we've yet to see something that is > close to being committable. Contrast that with Hot Standby, which > Heikki made a real shot at committing during the first CommitFest to > which it was submitted. > > I think David Fetter summarized it pretty well here - the rest of the > thread is worth reading, too. > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-07/msg01159.php > > I think the only chance of this ever getting committed is if a > committer volunteers to take ownership of it, similar to what Heikki > has done for Hot Standby and Streaming Replication. Right now, we > don't have any volunteers, and even if Tom or Heikki were interested, > I suspect it would occupy their entire attention for several > CommitFests just as HS and SR have done for Heikki. I suspect the > amount of work for SE-PostgreSQL might even be larger than for HS. If > we DON'T have a committer who is willing to own this, then I don't > think there's a choice other than giving up.
I offered to review it. I was going to mostly review the parts that impacted our existing code, and I wasn't going to be able to do a thorough job of the SE-Linux-specific files. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
