Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> That's controlled by pg_hba.conf though, isn't it? The idea being that
> you'd like to give some people the ability to create users/roles, but to
> limit the databases those created users/roles could connect to by, say,
> requiring they have 'usage' or 'connect' permissions to that database,
> which could be set by the database owner; without the database owner
> having write permissions to the pg_hba.conf.
You can do that today by putting a group name in pg_hba.conf. Roles
will make it more flexible; I don't see that we need anything more.
For instance, if pg_hba.conf says "samegroup" then you could manage
everything by associating a group with each database.
regards, tom lane
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