Re: PG vs MySQL

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com> writes:
> > And while we're at it, maybe we should have a setting somewhere should
> > someone execute the famous "update pg_shadow set usesuper = false" that
> > someone did a while back to be able to force an account to be a superuser
> > account.
>
> We already have an adequate solution for that one: shut down the
> postmaster and run a standalone backend.  You are always superuser in
> a standalone backend, so you can create a new superuser or just reverse
> the UPDATE command.

Ahhh.  Good point.  Any chance of having the same behaviour for pg_hba as
a table?  I.e. you accidentally remove all connectability and you could
restore it to a pg_hba table?  Does that even make sense?  I'm not sure.