Re: rolcanlogin vs. the flat password file

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-10-17T15:35:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
* Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> > There's legitimate use for creating a role with NOLOGIN and a password.
> 
> If we think that, then we shouldn't have a message at all.

I'm not sure I agree with that.  I don't agree that there's really a
legitimate use for creating a role w/ NOLOGIN and a password either, for
that matter.  A 'NOTICE' level message would be fine with me.  We have
NOTICE messages for when we create an index for a PK.  I find a message
about an entirely unexpected and unworkable configuration alot more
useful than those.

	Thanks,

		Stephen