Re: [v9.1] sepgsql - userspace access vector cache

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Kohei KaiGai <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>
Cc: PgHacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [v9.1] sepgsql - userspace access vector cache
Date: 2011-06-09 16:37:22
Message-ID: 20110609163722.GB18128@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Kohei KaiGai (kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp) wrote:
> The only modification by this patch to the core routine is a new
> syscache for pg_seclabel system catalog. The SECLABELOID enables to
> reference security label of the object using syscache interface.

Perhaps I'm missing it, but.. why is this necessary to implement such a
cache? Also, I thought the SELinux userspace libraries provided a cache
solution? This issue is hardly unique to SELinux in PostgreSQL...

THanks,

Stephen

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