How many users may be created ?

Hi,

i have to enhance my shopsystem by a simple closed user group.
One of our customers wants to give some of his customers
"special prices".

Up to now I used mysql and therefore used one single db-user for the
whole shop.
The customers were assigned a (auto increment) number for
identification.

So far so bad :|

Now I would like to use postgresql because of transactions, views,
groups etc.
(BTW: is one of the 7.1 snapshots stable enough for real usage ? (8k
limit, outer joins)).

1.)
Would it be wise to "CREATE USER ..." for every new customer (even the
ones without
special prices)?
That would easily mean >100.000 db-users. Where's the limit ?

If the answer is yes:

2.)
How can I achieve that A sees the prices for A and B the prices for B ?
I guess that this is what views are made for :)

example:

articles:
article | name   | defaultprice
-------------------------------
235     | burger | 13

specials:
user | article | price
----------------------
A    | 235     | 7
B    | 235     | 11

So, now my shop uses the account for user A to login.
I would like to "SELECT PRICE FROM WHATEVER WHERE ARTICLE=235" without
JOINing the tables manually.
I guess, that because OUTER JOINs are not supported (are they in 7.1
snapshot?) it complicates
the whole thing (If the user has no special-prices ...).

I really have know clue about views and rules and so on.

I would appreciate ANY help/hint/docs ...

--
 Nabil Sayegh