From: | Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Open 7.3 items |
Date: | 2002-08-27 21:58:30 |
Message-ID: | 1030485510.5215.81.camel@linda |
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On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 22:44, Tom Lane wrote:
> Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> > So it seems to me that you have achieved a small footprint within the
> > code, but potentially at the cost of a larger impact on users.
>
> I don't think anyone will deny that this is a kluge. However, we are
> not going to resurrect the separate-password-file thing (that was a
> worse kluge, especially when used for this purpose), and we are not
> going to postpone 7.3 while we think about a nicer solution. So, simple
> is beautiful for now. If there are enough people actually *using* this
> feature to make it worth improving, we can improve it ... later.
Could we then have a TODO item:
* Make local and global user representation consistent throughout.
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