| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| 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: | 2012-05-26 02:23:09 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoaRf=K1koGTgeDthFF0tO=PfEEM7b=cOzHxGi7oKeY61g@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> 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.
Eh? Why would the presence of usernames in pg_hba.conf mean that they
have to be global objects?
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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