Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Volker Aßmann <volker(dot)assmann(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option
Date: 2015-05-18 18:25:24
Message-ID: 555A2E94.1000703@agliodbs.com
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On 05/17/2015 08:58 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> You've added exactly one additional step in their way, and not a
> particularly difficult one. It simply doesn't solve the problem you're
> trying to solve, which is unsurprising, because technology has never
> been able to solve the problem of untrustworthy humans with positions of
> responsibility.

BTW, here I'm addressing Volker and other supporters of the
"compile-time option", not Robert.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com

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