Re: Per-Database Roles

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:19:12AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> In retrospect, I think the idea of shared catalogs was probably a bad
> idea.  I think we should have made roles and tablespaces database
> objects rather than shared objects, and come up with some ad-hoc
> method of representing the set of available databases.  But that
> decision seems to have been made sometime pre-1996, so the thought of
> changing it now is pretty painful, but I can dream...

Yes, pre-1996.  I think the fact that authentication/user names appear
in pg_hba.conf really locked the user name idea into global objects, and
we have never really been able to make a dent in that.

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