Re: Problem with reloading groups in pg_hba.conf

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Problem with reloading groups in pg_hba.conf
Date: 2002-03-22 06:54:01
Message-ID: 200203220654.g2M6s1626355@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Unfortunately, that would give us two places to specify
> > the connecting users, pg_hba.conf and GRANT CONNECT. Is that a problem?
>
> Yes. What if they conflict?
>
> I don't think GRANT CONNECT fits into our setup at all. I also doubt
> that it will be needed very much once we have schemas.

With groups, we are at least giving admins a way to do this that they
didn't have before. That may be enough.

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