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Re: 8.4 release planning

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, 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>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>
Date: 2009-01-27T20:32:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 16:36:50 Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Peter Eisentraut (peter_e@gmx.net) wrote:
> > As one of the earlier reviewers, I think the design is OK, but the way
> > the implementation is presented was not acceptable, and very little has
> > been accomplished in terms of reacting to our comments.  For example,
> > where is the SQL row security feature, which should have been designed,
> > implemented, and committed separately, in the opinion of most
> > commentaries.
>
> Eh?  Are you thinking of column-level privileges, which was committed
> last week?

No.

> The SQL spec doesn't define row-level security, and coming 
> up with something willy-nilly on our own doesn't really strike me as the
> best approach.

Exactly.  But there is plenty of discussion on that elsewhere.