Re: Row Level Security Documentation

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>, Rod Taylor <rod.taylor@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-09-26T19:29:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Dean,

* Dean Rasheed (dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com) wrote:
> On 26 September 2017 at 00:42, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> > That's a relatively minor point, however, and I do feel that this patch
> > is a definite improvement.  Were you thinking of just applying this for
> > v10, or back-patching all or part of it..?
> 
> I was planning on back-patching it to 9.5, taking out the parts
> relating the restrictive policies as appropriate. Currently the 9.5
> and 9.6 docs are identical, as are 10 and HEAD, and 9.5/9.6 only
> differs from 10/HEAD in a couple of places where they mention
> restrictive policies. IMO we should stick to that, making any
> improvements available in the back-branches. I was also thinking the
> same about the new summary table, although I haven't properly reviewed
> that yet.

Makes sense to me.

+1

Thanks!

Stephen

Commits

  1. Doc: add a summary table to the CREATE POLICY docs.