On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 06:09:35AM +0200, Dennis Bj??rklund wrote: > > We have a database specification in .pgpass: > > > > hostname:port:database:username:password > > > > What is the purpose of 'database' since username/password combinations > > are global, not per database? I would like to documents its purpose. > > There is the GUC parameter db_user_namespace. Just for that you could > probably use den...@foo as username instead, so maybe it's not the > purpose. But I can't think of any other reason. > > /Dennis >
This will allow the same user to save and use automatically different passwords for each separate database. Cheers, Ken -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
