Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@xxxxxxx> writes: > Aha ! Indeed, the 7.4 documentation wasn't clear enough on > that (for me): > "... The value samegroup specifies that the requested user > must a member of the group with the same name as the > requested database. ..." > Might this be amended to say "... a member of the *database* > group with ..." ? The 8.1 documentation uses the term "role", which seems unlikely to be confused with Unix groups: : database : : Specifies which database names this record matches. The value all : specifies that it matches all databases. The value sameuser : specifies that the record matches if the requested database has the : same name as the requested user. The value samerole specifies that : the requested user must be a member of the role with the same name : as the requested database. (samegroup is an obsolete but still : accepted spelling of samerole.) Otherwise, this is the name of a : specific PostgreSQL database. Multiple database names can be : supplied by separating them with commas. A separate file containing : database names can be specified by preceding the file name with @. Good enough? regards, tom lane
