On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > * Robert Haas (robertmh...@gmail.com) wrote: >> I think we have to assume that whatever actions a pluggable security >> provider might take at authentication time are going to be based on >> information from outside the database. > > I feel that would be perfect for 9.1 and supporting access to the > general catalog is something that, if we figure out a sane way to > do it, we could always add later (if there's demand, etc). > > For those bits of the catalog which *do* meet the requirements you > mention, I hope it'll be possible for the security module to access > them? Does make me wonder if we might consider adding a field to those > to support a label rather than trying to figure out a way for a third > party to provide a shared/nailed relation.
I'm not sure what the best thing to do about this is. I think it might be a good idea to start with some discussion of what problems people are trying to solve (hopefully N > 1?) and then try to figure out what a good solution might look like. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
