Re: Open 7.3 items

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > In a way that user has to be special for this case
> > because of the requirement that at least one person be able to connect
> > when you flip that flag.
>
> Why does anyone need to be special? The behavior should be to try the
> given user name, and if that's not found then to try user(at)db(dot) I see no
> need to special-case any user.

Oh, so try it with and without. I can do that, but it seems more of a
security problem where you were trying two names instead of one. Do
people like that? It is easy to do, except for the fact we have to
match pg_hba.conf with a username, though we could do the double-test
there too, if that isn't too weird.

> > Basically, I am not going to stop working on something when one person
> > objects or this will never get done,
>
> He didn't say to stop working on it. He said to fix the misdesigned
> parts. And I quite agree that those parts are misdesigned.

I will fix them as long as the fixes don't generate new objections, like
adding a new column to pg_shadow.

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