Re: Re: information on users

will trillich wrote:
  >What's interesting is that pg_user is PER DATABASE whereas
  >pg_shadow is DATABASE INDEPENDENT. i have a guess as to why that
  >is so, but rather than 'open mouth insert foot' i'll let someone
  >else do the explaining.

pg_user is a view, and, in 7.0.x and earlier, views are empty tables with
rules attached.  These are created by copying template1 into every new
database.

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