Re: rolcanlogin vs. the flat password file
Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-10-23T18:10:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote: > Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes: >> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes: >>> At least if we think it's more than a very narrow legitimate use, compared >>> to the number of ppl making the mistake. > >> Did we ever come to a conclusion on this or not? I've changed my patch >> per the suggestions in the thread, but I've held back on committing it >> to hear arguments... Go or no-go? > > I'm inclined to vote no-go on the message. AFAIR we've only heard the > one complaint about this, so I'm not convinced there's a lot of people > making such a mistake. We did make the logic change to deal with the > underlying problem of a misleading error message after you'd done it, > and I think that might be enough. Ok. I'm dropping it for now. If someone wants it later, the patch is in the archives... //Magnus