On Feb 1, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Christopher Hotchkiss <christopher.hotchk...@gmail.com> writes: >> I would like to propose (and volunteer to do if its considered to be a >> decent idea) to extend the mapping of users to roles in the pg_ident.conf to >> incorporate groups. > > Um ... there isn't any real distinction between users and groups > anymore, they're all roles. So it's not clear to me what you're > proposing that doesn't work now. Or at least could be made to work, > possibly not in quite the way you're thinking, but using the already > existing features. > > regards, tom lane
I'm sorry I wasn't clear Tom. I was referring to allowing the mapping of operating system users/groups to postgres roles. Today as far as I can tell only os users are mappable not the groups. Thoughts? Thanks, Christopher Hotchkiss -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
