AW: \c connects as another user instead I want in psql

From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>
To: "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kovacs Zoltan <kovacsz(at)pc10(dot)radnoti-szeged(dot)sulinet(dot)hu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: AW: \c connects as another user instead I want in psql
Date: 2001-05-03 13:38:57
Message-ID: 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA6879633682AD@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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> >> Is it possible that 1060 and 1092 have the same usesysid
> in pg_shadow?
>
> > Hmmm. That was the problem. Thanks! By the way, could you
> please define a
> > unique constraint on column 'usesysid' in future in PostgreSQL?
>
> Yup, there should be one (and one on usename, too). Not sure why it's
> been overlooked so far.

The usesysid was originally intended to map pg users to unix accounts.
I do not see why it should not be possible to map different pg users
to a single unix account. The above imho stems from an improper use of this
column which needs to be fixed, not the column made unique.

Andreas

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