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Add permission checks on SELECT INTO

Kohei KaiGai <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp> — 2011-11-02T10:41:19Z

This patch adds checks of INSERT permission on new tables constructed
by SELECT INTO or CREATE TABLE AS.

It does not change existing behavior except for tiny bit of cases when
a default privilege setting does not allow owner to insert tuples,
because table's default acl allows everything to its owner.
However, this check has significant meaning from the perspective of
mac; to prevent a user who can reference credential information to
write-out tables with public label; this characteristic is called as
data-flow-control.

Please also see the previous discussion as: http://bit.ly/uxeOhO

Thanks,
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KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>