Re: [RFC] PostgreSQL Access Control Extension (PGACE)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, glenn(dot)faden(at)sun(dot)com, james(dot)hughes(at)sun(dot)com
Subject: Re: [RFC] PostgreSQL Access Control Extension (PGACE)
Date: 2007-04-18 18:53:23
Message-ID: 7855.1176922403@sss.pgh.pa.us
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KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp> writes:
>>> There are also
>>> some interesting questions about SQL spec compliance and whether a
>>> database that silently hides some rows from you will give semantically
>>> consistent results.
>>
>> Yeah -- that's a potentially serious issue; KaiGai, have you looked into
>> it?

> Yes, I consider the policy to filter any violated tuple looks consistently.
> The policy enforces any tuple has to be filtered before using them, and
> it helps that computational processes don't get any effect from them.

> But proving innocence is generally hard task.
> At first, I want to know what points are you worried about the most.

Unique constraints and foreign-key constraints seem the most pressing
problems. What will you do to avoid having different viewers have
different opinions about whether a constraint is violated?

regards, tom lane

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