Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1268)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1268)
Date: 2008-12-11 15:11:31
Message-ID: 7088.1229008291@sss.pgh.pa.us
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KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp> writes:
> I have a plan to add a new field (declared as "int2 relrowacl") into
> pg_class to show what column stores its Row-level ACLs.

If you want the column to be "hidden" in the same way that system
columns are, I'm afraid this is a pretty bad idea. There are way too
many places that would require weird hacks to keep from treating a
positive-numbered column as a regular user column.

regards, tom lane

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