On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:49 PM, KaiGai Kohei <kai...@ak.jp.nec.com> wrote:

> IIRC, 0racle or M$ has a patent to rewrite WHERE clause for security
> purpose, so Tom suggested it should be implemented using a hook
> deployed within executor.


Yes, it was Oracle.  There are a couple newer revisions, but they're all
based primarily on Patent #6487552, Database Fine-grained Access Control,
Filed Oct 5, 1998/Issued Nov 26, 2002.  The patent covers defining a
security context, retrieving-defined policies from that context, and
applying those policies by directly calling a security-context-related
stored procedure in the WHERE clause as well as dynamically adding
security-related predicates to the WHERE-clause.

-- 
Jonah H. Harris, Senior DBA
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