So I'll admit to using it, only in "toy" setups... I use it with trust and ident, on local connections though, not password....
I try to keep my laptops clean of mysqld, and I use PG. And only on my laptop/PC, I make a database for every user... And every "app" get's a userid, and a schema.... Every user get's passwordless access to their database. And the "userid" associates the app, and the defaults that get used on their connections. So, I think it's "neat", but wouldn't be put out if it was removed ... On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net>wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: >> > On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Thom Brown <t...@linux.com> wrote: >> >> It will be 12 years this year since this "temporary measure" was >> >> added. I'm just wondering, is there any "complete solution" that >> >> anyone had in mind yet? Or should this just be deprecated? >> >> > I'd say +1 to remove it. That would also make it possible to get id of >> > "password" authentication... >> >> If we remove it without providing a substitute feature, people who are >> using it will rightly complain. >> >> Are you claiming there are no users, and if so, on what evidence? >> > > I am claiming that I don't think anybody is using that, yes. > > Based on the fact that I have *never* come across it on any system I've > come across since, well, forever. Except once I think, many years ago, when > someone had enabled it by mistake and needed my help to remove it... > > But we should absolutely deprecate it first in that place. Preferrably > visibly (e.g. with a log message when people use it). That could at least > get those people who use it to let us know they do, to that way figure out > if they do - and can de-deprecate it. > > Or if someone wants to fix it properly of course :) > > -- > Magnus Hagander > Me: http://www.hagander.net/ > Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ > -- Aidan Van Dyk Create like a god, ai...@highrise.ca command like a king, http://www.highrise.ca/ work like a slave.
