Re: What Would You Like To Do?

On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 07:14 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On 09/14/2011 05:12 AM, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 10:26 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >
> >>> Complete isolation at the user level, allowing an ISP to support
> >>> multiple independent customers on a server without having to fiddle with
> >>> multiple back ends each running on a separate port, a feature that MySQL
> >>> has had for as far back as I can recall, and one of the reasons ISPs are
> >>> more likely to offer MySQL than PostgreSQL.
> >>
> >> Now this would definitely be nice. It is frustrating that we don't have
> >> per database users.
> >
> > Hmm, what does the GUC db_user_namespace do then ?
> >
> > it says "Enables per-database user names."
>
> Last I checked (it has been a few years) that was at best, a hack. I
> remember either I or David Fetter? Writing about some issues with it on
> list but it was a long time ago.

I have never used it myself, so I can't comment on it.

OTOH it may be that it actually works if said ISP uses it carefully :)

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