Re: Open 7.3 items

On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 22:44, Tom Lane wrote:
> Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> > So it seems to me that you have achieved a small footprint within the
> > code, but potentially at the cost of a larger impact on users.
>
> I don't think anyone will deny that this is a kluge. However, we are
> not going to resurrect the separate-password-file thing (that was a
> worse kluge, especially when used for this purpose), and we are not
> going to postpone 7.3 while we think about a nicer solution. So, simple
> is beautiful for now. If there are enough people actually *using* this
> feature to make it worth improving, we can improve it ... later.

Could we then have a TODO item:

* Make local and global user representation consistent throughout.

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