| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Per-Database Roles |
| Date: | 2012-05-24 22:21:54 |
| Message-ID: | 20120524222154.GN10306@momjian.us |
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On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:19:12AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> In retrospect, I think the idea of shared catalogs was probably a bad
> idea. I think we should have made roles and tablespaces database
> objects rather than shared objects, and come up with some ad-hoc
> method of representing the set of available databases. But that
> decision seems to have been made sometime pre-1996, so the thought of
> changing it now is pretty painful, but I can dream...
Yes, pre-1996. I think the fact that authentication/user names appear
in pg_hba.conf really locked the user name idea into global objects, and
we have never really been able to make a dent in that.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
+ It's impossible for everything to be true. +
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