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Remove db_user_namespace.

Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>

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Commit: 884eee5bfb5ab902413dc00ccee5b3e3f1c505d0
Author: Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-07-17T18:44:59Z
Releases: 17.0 
Remove db_user_namespace.

This feature was intended to be a temporary measure to support
per-database user names.  A better one hasn't materialized in the
~21 years since it was added, and nobody claims to be using it, so
let's just remove it.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Magnus Hagander
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230630200509.GA2830328%40nathanxps13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230630215608.GD2941194%40nathanxps13

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doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml modified +0 −5
doc/src/sgml/config.sgml modified +0 −52
src/backend/libpq/auth.c modified +0 −5
src/backend/libpq/hba.c modified +0 −12
src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c modified +0 −19
src/backend/utils/misc/guc_tables.c modified +0 −9
src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample modified +0 −1
src/include/libpq/pqcomm.h modified +0 −2

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