Re: secondary password files

> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Why do we bother supporting passwords in pg_shadow and secondary files?
>
> So the same user can have different passwords for different databases.
>
> It's a pretty crude hack, since there isn't any support for updating
> the secondary password files except via manual editing done by the
> dbadmin. But I wouldn't be in favor of taking it out until we can
> replace that functionality elsewhere.

We have pg_passwd which does allow updating of the files.

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