* Dave Page (dpage@vale-housing.co.uk) wrote: > > This isn't actually an argument against my proposal. The > > admin doesn't > > edit pg_shadow using vi because it's understood to be 'owned' by the > > database. The same would be true of 'pg_hba' in my solution. > > Only if it were moved to a different location and renamed. Otherwise > people would be bound to try to edit it as that is what they have done > for years.
Sure, it could be moved/renamed to avoid confusion. Seems like alot better than having the database try to deal with user-editable files, which are in a format that's intended to be user-editable though. Thanks, Stephen
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature