Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: > That said, if there is a username specified it should not be ignored. > But if there is none specified, it should work. This works "reasonably > well" today, in that we pick the username up from the environment. But > I can see cases where it would be a lot more useful to have it instead > pick up the username from the authentication system, since they may > differ.
Are you not describing a behavior that you yourself removed in 8.4, ie the libpq code that looked aside at Kerberos for a username? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers