Re: rest of works for security providers in v9.1

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:32 AM, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp> wrote:
> (2010/12/13 21:53), Robert Haas wrote:
>> 2010/12/12 KaiGai Kohei<kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>:
>>>
>>> I'd like to see opinions what facilities should be developed
>>> to the current v9.1 development cycle.
>>
>> It seems to me that the next commit after the label-switcher-function
>> patch ought to be a contrib module that implements a basic form of
>> SE-Linux driven permissions checking.  I'm pretty unexcited about
>> continuing to add additional facilities that could be used by a
>> hypothetical module without actually seeing that module, and I think
>> that the label-switcher-function patch is the last piece of core
>> infrastructure that is a hard requirement rather than "nice to have".
>>  I'd rather have a complete feature with limited capabilities than
>> half a feature with really awesome capabilities.
>>
> It is a good news for me also, because I didn't imagine SE-PostgreSQL
> module getting upstreamed, even if contrib module.
>
> OK, I'll focus on the works to merge the starter-version of SE-PostgreSQL
> as a contrib module in the last commit fest.
>
> Probably, I need to provide its test cases and minimum documentations
> in addition to the code itself. Anything else?

Extremely detailed instructions on how to test it.

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