| From: | KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com> |
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| To: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Greg Williamson <gwilliamson39(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Sam Mason <sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk>, Joshua Brindle <method(at)manicmethod(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: SE-PostgreSQL Specifications |
| Date: | 2009-08-04 03:53:24 |
| Message-ID: | 4A77B0B4.1070909@ak.jp.nec.com |
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David Fetter wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:18:55PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> KaiGai,
>>
>> * KaiGai Kohei (kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com) wrote:
>>> I began to describe the list of abstraction layer functions (but not completed yet):
>>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SEPostgreSQL_Abstraction
>> I'm not really a huge fan of 'security_' as a prefix for these
>> functions, but I don't have a better suggestion right now.
>
> Just generally, "access control" is a great way to describe what's
> actually happening here. That people conflate access control with
> security has resulted in a number of disasters :P
My concern is "access_control_" is a bit long for prefixes,
but "ac_" is too short to represent what it is doing.
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OSS Platform Development Division, NEC
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>
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