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Re: 8.4 release planning

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Joshua Brindle <method@manicmethod.com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>, Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-01-27T18:54:09Z
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Josh,

> We do not consider that a short coming, anyone who needs to hide 
> existence of files needs to set up their directory structure to disallow 
> read/search/create on the directories they aren't allowed to discover 
> filenames in. Polyinstanciation can also address this issue.

Hmmm.  Why try to hide individual rows in tables then?  That would seem 
not in keeping with the filesystem policies.

--Josh