Re: Google SoC: column-level privilege subsystem

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Robert Haas" <Robert(dot)Haas(at)dyntek(dot)com>
Cc: "Joris Dobbelsteen" <Joris(at)familiedobbelsteen(dot)nl>, "August Zajonc" <augustz(at)augustz(dot)com>, "Golden Liu" <goldenliu(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Google SoC: column-level privilege subsystem
Date: 2007-04-25 05:37:59
Message-ID: 14134.1177479479@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Robert Haas" <Robert(dot)Haas(at)dyntek(dot)com> writes:
...
>> IF this will be implemented as suggested here, it will become
>> extremely counter-intuitive.
...
> You could solve this by having explicit positive and negative ACLs, i.e.
> your permissions for a particular column are:

Uh, wait a moment, people. The proposed project is to implement a
capability that is fully, 100% specified by the SQL standard. There
is zero scope for API invention here. You read the spec, you do
what it says.

regards, tom lane

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