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Re: 8.4 release planning

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Joshua Brindle <method@manicmethod.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>, Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>
Date: 2009-01-27T03:13:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Joshua Brindle wrote:
> While we haven't been able to analyze the patches directly to
> determine whether the security goals are indeed being met we
> have had much discussion and eventually community agreement on
> the security model being implemented. This happened years ago
> and has since been merged into the SELinux reference policy that
> practically all SELinux users use (distributions start with the
> reference policy and add rules/modules suitable for them).
> 
> So the security model has been looked at, though not the
> implementation and we do have a community of developers, users
> and customers interested in this work.

That is good to know.

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