Re: Thoughts on pg_hba.conf rejection

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Thoughts on pg_hba.conf rejection
Date: 2010-04-19 23:26:41
Message-ID: h2z603c8f071004191626ie7783d7awa2e2a3db11dff890@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> Robert Haas escribió:
>>> Would it be possible to set up a skeleton environment where we can
>>> access shared catalogs only and then decide on which database we're
>>> using later?
>
>> Eh?  We already do that ... In fact the autovac launcher is always
>> connected to shared catalogs, without being connected to any one
>> database in particular (cf. get_database_list)
>
> Hmm.  The AV launcher is only permitted to touch pg_database.
> At the time there were considerable advantages to that restriction,
> but subsequent changes (like getting rid of the need for manual
> maintenance of pg_attribute entries for bootstrap catalogs) might
> mean that it wouldn't be too painful to extend this capability to
> pg_authid etc.  Could be worth thinking about.

Perhaps we should add a TODO.

...Robert

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