On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Joel Burton wrote:

> pg_user holds users
> 
> (passwords in pg_shadow)

I doubt the -hackers people would let me add SPI_* stuff into libpq, just
to retrieve whether a user exists or not.. My first thought was to check
the existance of users against $PGDATA/pg_pwd... One question I'd have
there, is whether pg_pwd always exists (or, can be relied upon existing.)?



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