Re: Open 7.3 items

Neil Conway wrote:
> 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?

I am going to require the admin to prepend the dbname. GUC controls
whether authentication/username map from just the client-supplied
username, or the client username prepended with the dbname.

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

You swap back and forth between users with prepended dbnames and those
withouth.

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