"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> I know we are a little uncomfortable here but KaiGai-San (forgive me if
> I type that wrong) has proven to be a contributor in his own right,
Not to put too fine a point on it, but: no, he hasn't. Show me one
significant patch he's contributed before/beside this one. The only
thing I see in the CVS logs is that he helped Stephen Frost with column
privileges; I don't recall who did how much, but in any case that patch
still needed nontrivial fixes when it got to me.
Frankly, what we have here is a large patch, with insanely difficult
correctness requirements, written by a Postgres newbie. If it doesn't
scare you, you haven't been paying attention. We have a long track
record of problems with patches written by people who thought they were
ready to do major backend hacking without having bitten off some smaller
chunks first.
Perhaps it would help you calibrate the problem if I stated that
I wouldn't trust a patch for this purpose written by myself, let
alone somebody who hasn't been hacking the backend for ten years.
(Where "this purpose" means the type of control KaiGai-san seems
to hope to enforce, as opposed to just plugging some additional
constraints into the existing ACL-check routines.)
regards, tom lane