Re: Open 7.3 items

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > Access to nothing.  I could actually try to quality by dbname.username,
> > then fall back to just username, but that seems insecure.
> 
> No, that's cool ... just questions I thought of ...

OK.

> Okay ... hmmm ... just making sure that I understand ... I setup a server,
> when does this dbname.* come into play?  Only if I enable password/md5 in
> pg_hba.conf for a specific database?  all others would still use a plain
> 'username' still works?  or are you getting rid of the 'global usernames'
> altogether (which is cool too, just want to clarify) ...

There will be a GUC param db_user_namespace which will turn it on/off
for all access to the cluster _except_ for the super-user.

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