On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:19:12AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: >> In retrospect, I think the idea of shared catalogs was probably a bad >> idea. I think we should have made roles and tablespaces database >> objects rather than shared objects, and come up with some ad-hoc >> method of representing the set of available databases. But that >> decision seems to have been made sometime pre-1996, so the thought of >> changing it now is pretty painful, but I can dream... > > Yes, pre-1996. I think the fact that authentication/user names appear > in pg_hba.conf really locked the user name idea into global objects, and > we have never really been able to make a dent in that.
Eh? Why would the presence of usernames in pg_hba.conf mean that they have to be global objects? -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
