On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 03:19:43PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:31:37PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > OK, but why would we document the contents of a file that are not to be > > > modified by the user? > > > > But how is the file used? Where do I put the file, what do I put in > > pg_hba.conf to use the file? Can I have several files, one per > > pg_hba.conf entry? Can I use multiple files with a single pg_hba.conf > > entry? What happens if I have a username that has the separator in it? > > We no longer have the capability for external password files, which is > what the 7.2 docs were talking about. We removed it when we went to > encrypted MD5 password and pg_hba.conf entries where you can reference > external lists of users and groups. > > The file you were touching is a cache of usernames written by backends > modifing the pg_shadow table and read by the postmaster.
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