| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Joshua Brindle <method(at)manicmethod(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec> |
| Subject: | Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1704) |
| Date: | 2009-03-10 00:22:39 |
| Message-ID: | 1236644559.4649.80.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org |
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On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 20:05 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Is there any possibility of having it be enabled at compile time?
>
> That's been assumed right along (unless you think it's okay for Postgres
> to stop working on every non-SELinux platform).
Good point.
> The problem here is
> mostly about whether we have enough confidence in the code to put our
> project name on it.
This patch has been bandied about for what, two years? There is a known
fork of our project that runs with it. It has a live googlecode site:
http://code.google.com/p/sepgsql/
Which has lots of documentation.
I also appears to be active within the SE community:
http://www.nsa.gov/applications/search/index.cfm?q=se-postgresql
It is also part of the Secure OS project out of Japan (as far as I can
tell).
I know we are a little uncomfortable here but KaiGai-San (forgive me if
I type that wrong) has proven to be a contributor in his own right,
jumping over every hurdle we have presented him. He is obviously
sticking around for a while.
If we accept this code, we lose a fork of our project (good) and we pull
those people into our project (better) and hopefully they will help us
mature the project over time (best).
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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