On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:19:12AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > In retrospect, I think the idea of shared catalogs was probably a bad > idea. I think we should have made roles and tablespaces database > objects rather than shared objects, and come up with some ad-hoc > method of representing the set of available databases. But that > decision seems to have been made sometime pre-1996, so the thought of > changing it now is pretty painful, but I can dream...
Yes, pre-1996. I think the fact that authentication/user names appear in pg_hba.conf really locked the user name idea into global objects, and we have never really been able to make a dent in that. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
