Re: Open 7.3 items

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 05:05:35PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> OK, I have thought about this. First, a possible solution would be to
> have a GUC variable that prepends the dbname to all username
> specifications, so the username becomes dbname.username. When you
> CREATE USER "test", it actually does CREATE USER "dbname.test". Same
> with ALTER/DROP user and lookups in pg_hba.conf and authentication.
> Basically it gives us a per-db user namespace. Only the superuser has a
> non-db qualified name.

What about the following situation:

- 3 databases: 'devel', 'staging', and 'production'

- one user, 'httpd', which needs access to all 3 databases but
doesn't own any of them

- I create the 'httpd' user when I'm connected to, say, template1

- I issue a command that changes the httpd user in some way (e.g.
drops the user, alters the user, etc.) -- what happens?

Also, what happens if I enable the GUC var, create a bunch of different
users/databases, and then disable it again?

Cheers,

Neil

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