| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Why do we have a database specification in .pgpass? |
| Date: | 2010-10-14 02:15:11 |
| Message-ID: | 1287022413-sup-2607@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of mié oct 13 15:32:22 -0300 2010:
> We have a database specification in .pgpass:
>
> hostname:port:database:username:password
>
> What is the purpose of 'database' since username/password combinations
> are global, not per database? I would like to documents its purpose.
I think when I wrote it, I was hoping that the db_user_namespace thing
would be changed into a real per-database user implementation. That
would have meant having different passwords depending on the database.
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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
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