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Re: Open 7.3 items

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-01T21:12:03Z
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane writes:
> 
> > We've had several proposals in this thread for complicated extensions
> > to the user naming mechanism.  I think that's overdesigning the feature,
> > because we have *no* examples of real-world need for such things except
> > for Marc's situation.  Let's keep it simple until we see real use cases
> > that can drive the design of something fancy.
> 
> I don't buy this argument.  The reason we have no examples is that people
> are happily using the feature and don't have any reason to tell the world
> about it.

Well, we are going to find out in 7.3 when the secondary password file
is no longer supported.

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