Re: Thoughts on pg_hba.conf rejection

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> 1. We'd have to force an initdb because of a couple of small catalog
> changes.  This doesn't seem like a showstopper at this phase of the
> release cycle, but it's slightly annoying.  pg_migrator could be used
> if anyone's really in need of it.

Fine.

> 2. We don't have infrastructure that would allow access to out-of-line
> toasted fields during startup.  Rather than try to add such, I propose
> removing pg_authid's toast table, with the consequence that rolpassword
> cannot be long enough to require out-of-line storage (note it could
> still be compressed in-line).  I cannot imagine any real situation where
> this would be an issue --- does anyone else?  (BTW, I'm fairly sure that
> we couldn't support an out-of-line rolpassword in the past anyway,
> because of restrictions in the old flatfiles code.)

I think that's OK.

> 3. We'd have to nail pg_authid, pg_auth_members, and their indexes into
> relcache, because relcache.c isn't prepared to cope otherwise.  I doubt
> this would affect performance in any material way, but it would eat a
> few more kbytes of storage per backend.

Hmm, I'm not sure I understand why this is necessary or what our other
options are.

...Robert