Re: Password sub-process ...

Hi,

> I am wondering if we could have a configure-time or install-time
> option to make pg_shadow (and pg_group I guess) be database-local
> instead of installation-wide.  I am not sure about the implications
> of this --- in particular, is the notion of a database owner still
> meaningful?  How could the postmaster cope with it (I'd guess we'd
> need multiple flat files, one per DB, for the postmaster to read)?

I realy like the idea, but how would you handle the postgres (super)user in
this scenario? One global postgres user, or a separate one for each db? In
the last case, the DB owner would be the DB-specific postgres user. A global
superuser would still be needed for backups and other maintainance tasks...

Sander