On Tuesday 05 January 2010 09:37:57 black light wrote: > Hi, > Why PG uses a flat file (global\pg_auth) for md5 authentication!? Is it > forced to do it instead of accessing relevant table is system catalog? It does not anymore: http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=7b0a92a0b6f5ef41f1547381cbd0e2604ec2bf87
The reason earlier was that the authentication check was done before a backend was started... Andres -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
