Re: Open 7.3 items

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > Access to nothing. I could actually try to quality by dbname.username,
> > > then fall back to just username, but that seems insecure.
> >
> > No, that's cool ... just questions I thought of ...
>
> OK.
>
> > Okay ... hmmm ... just making sure that I understand ... I setup a server,
> > when does this dbname.* come into play? Only if I enable password/md5 in
> > pg_hba.conf for a specific database? all others would still use a plain
> > 'username' still works? or are you getting rid of the 'global usernames'
> > altogether (which is cool too, just want to clarify) ...
>
> There will be a GUC param db_user_namespace which will turn it on/off
> for all access to the cluster _except_ for the super-user.

Okay ... cluster == database server, or a subset of databases within the
server? I know what I think of as a cluster, and somehow I suspect this
has to do with the new schema stuff, which means I *really* have to find
time to do some catch-up reading ;) need more hours in day, days in week
;(