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Re: Improving RLS planning

Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>

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From: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2016-11-10T19:07:14Z
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On 10 November 2016 at 17:12, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Yeah, I think we'd be best off to avoid the bare term "security".
> It's probably too late to change the RTE field name "securityQuals",
> but maybe we could uniformly call those "security barrier quals" in
> the comments.  Then the basic terminology is that we have security
> barrier views and row-level security both implemented on top of
> security barrier quals, and we should be careful to use the right
> one of those three terms in comments/documentation.
>

+1 for that terminology and no renaming of fields.

Regards,
Dean

Commits

  1. Improve RLS planning by marking individual quals with security levels.