On Feb 1, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > Christopher Hotchkiss <[email protected]> writes: >> I would like to propose (and volunteer to do if its considered to be a >> decent idea) to extend the mapping of users to roles in the pg_ident.conf to >> incorporate groups. > > Um ... there isn't any real distinction between users and groups > anymore, they're all roles. So it's not clear to me what you're > proposing that doesn't work now. Or at least could be made to work, > possibly not in quite the way you're thinking, but using the already > existing features. > > regards, tom lane
I'm sorry I wasn't clear Tom. I was referring to allowing the mapping of operating system users/groups to postgres roles. Today as far as I can tell only os users are mappable not the groups. Thoughts? Thanks, Christopher Hotchkiss -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
