Re: Password sub-process ...

Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca>

From: Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-07-26T17:27:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 11:48, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca> writes:
> > This still doesn't allow john on db1 to be a different user than john on
> > db2.  To accomplish that (easily) we still need to install different
> > instances for each database.
> 
> Some people think that cross-database user names are a feature, not
> a bug.  I cannot see any way to change that without creating huge
> backward-compatibility headaches --- and it's not at all clear to
> me that it's a step forward, anyway.

I've been considering ways to come up with 2 classes of user.  One which
is global, the other which is local.  But it's not nearly enough of an
inconvenience to warrant it.