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Re: 8.4 release planning

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, 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>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>
Date: 2009-01-27T21:10:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> BTW, whilst we are being beat about the head and shoulders with how
> Oracle et al already have features like this, it is entirely appropriate
> to wonder how come it's not in the standard.  Those companies surely
> pretty much control the standards committee, and they have managed to
> push a ton of rather dubious things into the last couple of SQL updates.
> If row-level security is such a mess that they couldn't standardize it,
> that tells me something.

For my 2c, for whatever it's worth, it's a combination of a specialized
user base and the fact that this kind of security used to only be in a
seperate product (eg: Trusted Oracle).  Perhaps it will be in the
standard some day, I don't think it's unreasonable to think that.
Certainly it'd be nice if it was already there.

	Thanks,

		Stephen