[GENERAL] Filtering the results of UNION ALL vs filtering the separate queries

2016-04-27 Thread Stefan Weiss
Hi. I'm searching in a medium-sized table (135k rows, 29 columns). Some of the records point to other (parent) records, whose data values have to be used for filtering as well as for joins, instead of the record's own fields. Grouping the different types of records into "subset" views, the query

Re: [GENERAL] MD5 salt in pg_authid password hashes

2012-02-16 Thread Stefan Weiss
On 2012-02-16 04:18, Adrian Klaver wrote: > When you alter the role name you are told the password has been cleared. It > would be fairly easy to wrap the rename and the setting of the password in a > transaction. But this shouldn't be necessary. I don't get why the salt has to be linked with th

[GENERAL] MD5 salt in pg_authid password hashes

2012-02-15 Thread Stefan Weiss
>From the manual: | Because MD5-encrypted passwords use the role name as cryptographic | salt, renaming a role clears its password if the password is | MD5-encrypted. In backend/commands/user.c if (!pg_md5_encrypt(password, stmt->role, strlen(stmt->role), encrypted_pa