On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 07:37:26AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 22:38:13 -0400, > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hackers, > > > > One can alter a user to set a validity timestamp. However, unless one > > uses the ugly kludge of setting a date very far into the future, there's > > no way to set this validity forever. > > There is an infinite time for timestamp. There currently isn't for date, > though there was some talk about doing that.
I don't know much about date/time datatypes, but valuntil is of type abstime, and you can set it to infinity: alvh=# alter user alvh valid until 'infinity'; ALTER USER alvh=# select usename, valuntil from pg_shadow where usename='alvh'; usename | valuntil ---------+---------- alvh | infinity (1 row) I see now that one can use this syntax to make a user valid forever, though it is different than setting the value to NULL (as is when the user hasn't got a validity defined). This should be mentioned in the docs, I think. -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) "In fact, the basic problem with Perl 5's subroutines is that they're not crufty enough, so the cruft leaks out into user-defined code instead, by the Conservation of Cruft Principle." (Larry Wall, Apocalypse 6) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
