| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Neil Conway <nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Open 7.3 items |
| Date: | 2002-08-01 21:12:03 |
| Message-ID: | 200208012112.g71LC3t00479@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > We've had several proposals in this thread for complicated extensions
> > to the user naming mechanism. I think that's overdesigning the feature,
> > because we have *no* examples of real-world need for such things except
> > for Marc's situation. Let's keep it simple until we see real use cases
> > that can drive the design of something fancy.
>
> I don't buy this argument. The reason we have no examples is that people
> are happily using the feature and don't have any reason to tell the world
> about it.
Well, we are going to find out in 7.3 when the secondary password file
is no longer supported.
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