Re: Reworks for Access Control facilities (r2363) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Reworks for Access Control facilities (r2363)
Date
Msg-id 8579.1255714385@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Reworks for Access Control facilities (r2363)  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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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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