Re: Thoughts on pg_hba.conf rejection

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>, Joshua Tolley <eggyknap@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-04-20T22:48:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas escribió:

> I suppose the problem here is that pg_attribute and pg_class are not
> shared catalogs, so we can't read them without selecting a database.
> What about making a fake version of these relations that includes only
> the shared catalogs?

Hmm, interesting.  I wonder if something of this sort would allow one to
create a shared relation at the user level -- right now the set of
shared relations is hardcoded so this cannot work.

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