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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: robertmhaas@gmail.com
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp
Subject: Re: Reworks for Access Control facilities (r2363)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:33:05 -0400
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Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> The first step is to add hooks which don't change the security model
> at all, just allow people to control the existing checks from their SE
> configuration.

This is in fact what the presented patch is meant to do.  The issue is
about whether the hook placement is sane/useful/extensible.  The main
problem I've got with the design is that it doesn't appear to work for
privilege checks made by add-on modules.

			regards, tom lane



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