Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Now that we have SQL-level CONNECT privilege, I wonder just how much >> functionality would be lost if we got rid of the flat files and told >> people they had to use CONNECT to do any per-user or per-database >> access control. >> >> The main point I can see offhand is that password checking would have >> to be done a lot later in the startup sequence, with correspondingly >> more cycles wasted to reject bad passwords. > Is this a TODO? Well, it's a TO-THINK-ABOUT anyway. I think the appropriate next step would not be to write code, but to do a detailed investigation of what would be gained or lost. I don't remember exactly what we do with the flat-file contents. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
