On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > Robert Haas wrote: >> > We can pick different options for 9.0, 9.1, and 9.2. ?(For PG 9.0 >> > probably only #1 is appropriate.) >> >> I don't like any of these options as well as what I already proposed. >> I proposed a complicated approach that actually fixes the problem for >> real; you're proposing a whole bunch of simpler approaches all of >> which have pretty obvious holes. We already have something that only >> sorta works; replacing it with a different system that only sorta >> works is not going to be a great leap forward. > > What is your proposal? Write a password into a file that is read by the > postmaster on startup and used for connections? That would remove the > "modify pg_hba.conf to 'trust'" step, but again only for new servers.
Yeah, as noted upthread, I'd probably create a binary_upgrade.conf that works like recovery.conf, if it were me. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers