Re: [v9.4] row level security

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, "ktm(at)rice(dot)edu" <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PgHacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [v9.4] row level security
Date: 2013-09-04 14:50:49
Message-ID: 1543.1378306249@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Well, the security-barrier view stuff did not present itself as a 100%
>> solution. But perhaps more to the point, it was conceptually simple to
>> implement, ie don't flatten views if they have this bit set, and don't
>> push down quals into such sub-selects unless they're marked leakproof.

> Right. IMHO, this new feature should be similarly simple: when an
> unprivileged user references a table, treat that as a reference to a
> leakproof view over the table, with the RLS qual injected into the
> view.

And for insert/update/delete, we do what exactly?

regards, tom lane

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