SECURITY LABEL(7)       PostgreSQL 9.6.2 Documentation       SECURITY LABEL(7)



NAME
       SECURITY_LABEL - define or change a security label applied to an object

SYNOPSIS
       SECURITY LABEL [ FOR provider ] ON
       {
         TABLE object__name |
         COLUMN table__name.column__name |
         AGGREGATE aggregate__name ( aggregate__signature ) |
         DATABASE object__name |
         DOMAIN object__name |
         EVENT TRIGGER object__name |
         FOREIGN TABLE object__name
         FUNCTION function__name ( [ [ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [, ...] ] ) |
         LARGE OBJECT large__object__oid |
         MATERIALIZED VIEW object__name |
         [ PROCEDURAL ] LANGUAGE object__name |
         ROLE object__name |
         SCHEMA object__name |
         SEQUENCE object__name |
         TABLESPACE object__name |
         TYPE object__name |
         VIEW object__name
       } IS 'label'

       where aggregate__signature is:

       * |
       [ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [ , ... ] |
       [ [ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [ , ... ] ] ORDER BY [ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [ , ... ]

DESCRIPTION
       SECURITY LABEL applies a security label to a database object. An
       arbitrary number of security labels, one per label provider, can be
       associated with a given database object. Label providers are loadable
       modules which register themselves by using the function
       register_label_provider.

           Note
           register_label_provider is not an SQL function; it can only be
           called from C code loaded into the backend.

       The label provider determines whether a given label is valid and
       whether it is permissible to assign that label to a given object. The
       meaning of a given label is likewise at the discretion of the label
       provider.  PostgreSQL places no restrictions on whether or how a label
       provider must interpret security labels; it merely provides a mechanism
       for storing them. In practice, this facility is intended to allow
       integration with label-based mandatory access control (MAC) systems
       such as SE-Linux. Such systems make all access control decisions based
       on object labels, rather than traditional discretionary access control
       (DAC) concepts such as users and groups.

PARAMETERS
       object__name
       table__name.column__name
       aggregate__name
       function__name
           The name of the object to be labeled. Names of tables, aggregates,
           domains, foreign tables, functions, sequences, types, and views can
           be schema-qualified.

       provider
           The name of the provider with which this label is to be associated.
           The named provider must be loaded and must consent to the proposed
           labeling operation. If exactly one provider is loaded, the provider
           name may be omitted for brevity.

       argmode
           The mode of a function or aggregate argument: IN, OUT, INOUT, or
           VARIADIC. If omitted, the default is IN. Note that SECURITY LABEL
           does not actually pay any attention to OUT arguments, since only
           the input arguments are needed to determine the function's
           identity. So it is sufficient to list the IN, INOUT, and VARIADIC
           arguments.

       argname
           The name of a function or aggregate argument. Note that SECURITY
           LABEL does not actually pay any attention to argument names, since
           only the argument data types are needed to determine the function's
           identity.

       argtype
           The data type of a function or aggregate argument.

       large__object__oid
           The OID of the large object.

       PROCEDURAL
           This is a noise word.

       label
           The new security label, written as a string literal; or NULL to
           drop the security label.

EXAMPLES
       The following example shows how the security label of a table might be
       changed.

           SECURITY LABEL FOR selinux ON TABLE mytable IS 'system_u:object_r:sepgsql_table_t:s0';

COMPATIBILITY
       There is no SECURITY LABEL command in the SQL standard.

SEE ALSO
       sepgsql, src/test/modules/dummy_seclabel



PostgreSQL 9.6.2                     2017                    SECURITY LABEL(7)
