Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In response to Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Yeah, but the postmaster can't read pg_authid, nor any other table, >> because it's not logically connected to the database. So any change >> to pg_authid gets copied to a "flat" ASCII-text file for the postmaster.
> Would using kerberos or some other external auth mechanism work around this? Kerberos can't read the database directly either, so I'm not sure I see your point. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly