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    Improve qual pushdown for RLS and SB views · dcbf5948
    Stephen Frost authored
    The original security barrier view implementation, on which RLS is
    built, prevented all non-leakproof functions from being pushed down to
    below the view, even when the function was not receiving any data from
    the view.  This optimization improves on that situation by, instead of
    checking strictly for non-leakproof functions, it checks for Vars being
    passed to non-leakproof functions and allows functions which do not
    accept arguments or whose arguments are not from the current query level
    (eg: constants can be particularly useful) to be pushed down.
    
    As discussed, this does mean that a function which is pushed down might
    gain some idea that there are rows meeting a certain criteria based on
    the number of times the function is called, but this isn't a
    particularly new issue and the documentation in rules.sgml already
    addressed similar covert-channel risks.  That documentation is updated
    to reflect that non-leakproof functions may be pushed down now, if
    they meet the above-described criteria.
    
    Author: Dean Rasheed, with a bit of rework to make things clearer,
    along with comment and documentation updates from me.
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