Re: db_user_namespace a "temporary measure"

So I'll admit to using it, only in "toy" setups...

I use it with trust and ident, on local connections though, not password....

I try to keep my laptops clean of mysqld, and I use PG. And only on my
laptop/PC, I make a database for every user... And every "app" get's a
userid, and a schema.... Every user get's passwordless access to their
database. And the "userid" associates the app, and the defaults that get
used on their connections.

So, I think it's "neat", but wouldn't be put out if it was removed ...

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> > On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> wrote:
>> >> It will be 12 years this year since this "temporary measure" was
>> >> added. I'm just wondering, is there any "complete solution" that
>> >> anyone had in mind yet? Or should this just be deprecated?
>>
>> > I'd say +1 to remove it. That would also make it possible to get id of
>> > "password" authentication...
>>
>> If we remove it without providing a substitute feature, people who are
>> using it will rightly complain.
>>
>> Are you claiming there are no users, and if so, on what evidence?
>>
>
> I am claiming that I don't think anybody is using that, yes.
>
> Based on the fact that I have *never* come across it on any system I've
> come across since, well, forever. Except once I think, many years ago, when
> someone had enabled it by mistake and needed my help to remove it...
>
> But we should absolutely deprecate it first in that place. Preferrably
> visibly (e.g. with a log message when people use it). That could at least
> get those people who use it to let us know they do, to that way figure out
> if they do - and can de-deprecate it.
>
> Or if someone wants to fix it properly of course :)
>
> --
> Magnus Hagander
> Me: http://www.hagander.net/
> Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
>

--
Aidan Van Dyk Create like a god,
aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca command like a king,
http://www.highrise.ca/ work like a
slave.