On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 15:37, Michael Fuhr wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 03:24:01PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > One other small point is the bootstrapping problem: if you can't get > > into the database to modify the config table, you've got trouble. > > Hence MySQL's --skip-grant-tables option; if you've locked yourself > out then you have to disable security entirely to get back in and > fix the problem. With a configuration that you can edit from outside > the database, you can usually get back in without having to punch > as big a hole. And you can change pg_hba.conf on the fly, so you don't have to restart a 24/7 database because you locked the superuser out.
