Craig Ringer <cr...@postnewspapers.com.au> writes:
> Anyway ... I'm curious about whether `SET ROLE rolename WITH PASSWORD' 
> is something that's technically practical to implement in PostgreSQL and 
> what people think about the idea.

Seems like it would have all the standard problems with cleartext
passwords being exposed in pg_stat_activity, system logs, etc.
Also, what about people who are using more-secure-than-password
auth methods, like Kerberos?

I'm not really for it.

                        regards, tom lane

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