On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 17:08 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > >> Oh. Then I'm confused. Tom said: "as of 9.0, it's necessary to >> connect to some database in order to proceed with auth checking". Why >> is that necessary > > It's not, I just explained how to do it without.
Your explanation seems to presuppose that we somehow can't process the database-specific rules before selecting a database. I don't understand why that would be the case. Why can't we just check all the rules and then, if we decide to allow the connection, select the database? ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers