Re: [PATCHES] Users/Groups -> Roles

* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> > That's controlled by pg_hba.conf though, isn't it? The idea being that
> > you'd like to give some people the ability to create users/roles, but to
> > limit the databases those created users/roles could connect to by, say,
> > requiring they have 'usage' or 'connect' permissions to that database,
> > which could be set by the database owner; without the database owner
> > having write permissions to the pg_hba.conf.
>
> You can do that today by putting a group name in pg_hba.conf. Roles
> will make it more flexible; I don't see that we need anything more.
>
> For instance, if pg_hba.conf says "samegroup" then you could manage
> everything by associating a group with each database.

Ahh, ok, good point. Sorry, I'd forgotten about that flexibility of
pg_hba.conf. Well, hopefully this will make some ISPs happy then. :)

Thanks,

Stephen