Row-Level Security Policies (RLS)

Building on the updatable security-barrier views work, add the
ability to define policies on tables to limit the set of rows
which are returned from a query and which are allowed to be added
to a table.  Expressions defined by the policy for filtering are
added to the security barrier quals of the query, while expressions
defined to check records being added to a table are added to the
with-check options of the query.

New top-level commands are CREATE/ALTER/DROP POLICY and are
controlled by the table owner.  Row Security is able to be enabled
and disabled by the owner on a per-table basis using
ALTER TABLE .. ENABLE/DISABLE ROW SECURITY.

Per discussion, ROW SECURITY is disabled on tables by default and
must be enabled for policies on the table to be used.  If no
policies exist on a table with ROW SECURITY enabled, a default-deny
policy is used and no records will be visible.

By default, row security is applied at all times except for the
table owner and the superuser.  A new GUC, row_security, is added
which can be set to ON, OFF, or FORCE.  When set to FORCE, row
security will be applied even for the table owner and superusers.
When set to OFF, row security will be disabled when allowed and an
error will be thrown if the user does not have rights to bypass row
security.

Per discussion, pg_dump sets row_security = OFF by default to ensure
that exports and backups will have all data in the table or will
error if there are insufficient privileges to bypass row security.
A new option has been added to pg_dump, --enable-row-security, to
ask pg_dump to export with row security enabled.

A new role capability, BYPASSRLS, which can only be set by the
superuser, is added to allow other users to be able to bypass row
security using row_security = OFF.

Many thanks to the various individuals who have helped with the
design, particularly Robert Haas for his feedback.

Authors include Craig Ringer, KaiGai Kohei, Adam Brightwell, Dean
Rasheed, with additional changes and rework by me.

Reviewers have included all of the above, Greg Smith,
Jeff McCormick, and Robert Haas.

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
index b87bfb3ff00..d2083142589 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
 #include "replication/syncrep.h"
 #include "replication/walreceiver.h"
 #include "replication/walsender.h"
+#include "rewrite/rowsecurity.h"
 #include "storage/bufmgr.h"
 #include "storage/dsm_impl.h"
 #include "storage/standby.h"
@@ -401,6 +402,23 @@ static const struct config_enum_entry huge_pages_options[] = {
 };
 
 /*
+ * Although only "on", "off", and "force" are documented, we
+ * accept all the likely variants of "on" and "off".
+ */
+static const struct config_enum_entry row_security_options[] = {
+	{"on", ROW_SECURITY_ON, false},
+	{"off", ROW_SECURITY_OFF, false},
+	{"force", ROW_SECURITY_FORCE, false},
+	{"true", ROW_SECURITY_ON, true},
+	{"false", ROW_SECURITY_OFF, true},
+	{"yes", ROW_SECURITY_ON, true},
+	{"no", ROW_SECURITY_OFF, true},
+	{"1", ROW_SECURITY_ON, true},
+	{"0", ROW_SECURITY_OFF, true},
+	{NULL, 0, false}
+};
+
+/*
  * Options for enum values stored in other modules
  */
 extern const struct config_enum_entry wal_level_options[];
@@ -456,6 +474,8 @@ int			tcp_keepalives_idle;
 int			tcp_keepalives_interval;
 int			tcp_keepalives_count;
 
+int			row_security = true;
+
 /*
  * This really belongs in pg_shmem.c, but is defined here so that it doesn't
  * need to be duplicated in all the different implementations of pg_shmem.c.
@@ -3517,6 +3537,16 @@ static struct config_enum ConfigureNamesEnum[] =
 		NULL, NULL, NULL
 	},
 
+	{
+		{"row_security", PGC_USERSET, CONN_AUTH_SECURITY,
+			gettext_noop("Enable row security."),
+			gettext_noop("When enabled, row security will be applied to all users.")
+		},
+		&row_security,
+		ROW_SECURITY_ON, row_security_options,
+		NULL, NULL, NULL
+	},
+
 	/* End-of-list marker */
 	{
 		{NULL, 0, 0, NULL, NULL}, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL