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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: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, 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>, Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>
Date: 2009-01-28T22:49:24Z
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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 point is we would have preferred to see SQL-level row permissions as
a separate patch first; that just didn't happen in this case, and it
makes the discussion a little more complex.

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