| From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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| To: | Michael Banck <mbanck(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Volker Aßmann <volker(dot)assmann(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Disabling trust/ident authentication configure option |
| Date: | 2015-05-20 23:48:38 |
| Message-ID: | 20150520234837.GP26667@tamriel.snowman.net |
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* Michael Banck (mbanck(at)gmx(dot)net) wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 07:03:26PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I think Andres' point about "trust" being an essential disaster recovery
> > mode is something to consider, as well. That puts pretty strict limits
> > on what would be a credible replacement.
>
> Then let's rename it from `trust' to `disaster'... ;)
While certainly an amusing idea, I'm afraid that it's simply not worth
the complaints we'd get, as we wouldn't have materially improved
things. :/ Not only that, but they might mistakenly believe that it's
then only available when doing recovery or something along those lines.
Thanks!
Stephen
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