| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Rod Taylor <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca> |
| Cc: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Password sub-process ... |
| Date: | 2002-07-26 15:48:01 |
| Message-ID: | 25887.1027698481@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Rod Taylor <rbt(at)zort(dot)ca> writes:
> This still doesn't allow john on db1 to be a different user than john on
> db2. To accomplish that (easily) we still need to install different
> instances for each database.
Some people think that cross-database user names are a feature, not
a bug. I cannot see any way to change that without creating huge
backward-compatibility headaches --- and it's not at all clear to
me that it's a step forward, anyway.
I think that it might be worth adding a CONNECT privilege at the
database level; that together with Bruce's recent revisions to
pg_hba.conf ought to be a pretty good improvement.
regards, tom lane
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