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Re: [PATCH] Largeobject Access Controls (r2460)

Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>

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From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: "Greg Smith" <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, "KaiGai Kohei" <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "Jaime Casanova" <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>
Date: 2009-12-07T16:13:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> wrote:
 
> Apart from SELinux, it is quite natural to apply any access
> controls on binary data. If we could not have any valid access
> controls, users will not want to store their sensitive
> information, such as confidential PDF files, as a large object.
 
Absolutely.  The historical security issues for large objects
immediately eliminated them as a possible place to store PDF files.
 
-Kevin