Re: Reimplementing permission checks for rules

From: Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Reimplementing permission checks for rules
Date: 2000-09-26 16:13:24
Message-ID: 3.0.5.32.20000927021324.02e2e300@mail.rhyme.com.au
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At 10:54 26/09/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>Comments? Is this a general enough mechanism, and does it fit well
>with the various setUID tricks that people are thinking about?
>

Didn't Peter & Jan have a rewrite of the permissions system in the pipeline
- or has that disappeared? What Jan was proposing was rather more
substantial than just the setuid stuff, I *think*.

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