Re: Thoughts on pg_hba.conf rejection

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> Robert Haas escribió:
>>> Would it be possible to set up a skeleton environment where we can
>>> access shared catalogs only and then decide on which database we're
>>> using later?
>
>> Eh?  We already do that ... In fact the autovac launcher is always
>> connected to shared catalogs, without being connected to any one
>> database in particular (cf. get_database_list)
>
> Hmm.  The AV launcher is only permitted to touch pg_database.
> At the time there were considerable advantages to that restriction,
> but subsequent changes (like getting rid of the need for manual
> maintenance of pg_attribute entries for bootstrap catalogs) might
> mean that it wouldn't be too painful to extend this capability to
> pg_authid etc.  Could be worth thinking about.

Perhaps we should add a TODO.

...Robert