Re: BUG #5763: pg_hba.conf not honored

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "Kaiting Chen" <kaitocracy(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> From this pg_hba configuration as the user 'kaiting.chen' is not in role
>> 'service' the second entry in the table should be skipped and he should
>> authenticate via GSSAPI. However this does not happen.
>
> I believe the definition of "in role" we use here is "has the privileges
> of role".  Since kaiting.chen is a superuser, all privilege tests will
> succeed for him, including that one.  IOW, a superuser is automatically
> a member of every role.  This isn't a bug.

I guess it's not a bug if we did it that way on purpose, but it seems
like testing for actual group membership would be less surprising.

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