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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: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, Ron Snyder <snyder@roguewave.com>, Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-14T18:24:50Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > In a way that user has to be special for this case
> > because of the requirement that at least one person be able to connect
> > when you flip that flag.
> 
> Why does anyone need to be special?  The behavior should be to try the
> given user name, and if that's not found then to try user@db.  I see no
> need to special-case any user.


Oh, so try it with and without.  I can do that, but it seems more of a
security problem where you were trying two names instead of one.  Do
people like that?  It is easy to do, except for the fact we have to
match pg_hba.conf with a username, though we could do the double-test
there too, if that isn't too weird.

> > Basically, I am not going to stop working on something when one person
> > objects or this will never get done,
> 
> He didn't say to stop working on it.  He said to fix the misdesigned
> parts.  And I quite agree that those parts are misdesigned.

I will fix them as long as the fixes don't generate new objections, like
adding a new column to pg_shadow.

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