> > 2.Why the authentication system is not integrated in
> > the system databases of pgSQL,like in MySQL for
> > example?
>
> Because there's a bootstrapping problem: You would have to connect to the
> database to change the authentication settings, but in order to connect
> you have to be authenticated.
That's not to hard to fix. You just have initdb create system catalogs
with a the required settings.
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