On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 22:44, Tom Lane wrote: > Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So it seems to me that you have achieved a small footprint within the > > code, but potentially at the cost of a larger impact on users. > > I don't think anyone will deny that this is a kluge. However, we are > not going to resurrect the separate-password-file thing (that was a > worse kluge, especially when used for this purpose), and we are not > going to postpone 7.3 while we think about a nicer solution. So, simple > is beautiful for now. If there are enough people actually *using* this > feature to make it worth improving, we can improve it ... later.
Could we then have a TODO item: * Make local and global user representation consistent throughout. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C ======================================== "But the end of all things is at hand; be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. And above all things have fervent love among yourselves; for love shall cover the multitude of sins." I Peter 4:7,8 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: 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