Re: [GENERAL] Automatically assuming a specific role after connecting to pg

2006-04-23 Thread Stephen Frost
* Florian G. Pflug ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'd like to be able to connect to postgres, and automatically assume a > specific role. Couldn't you just have 'SET ROLE ' in the user's .psqlrc? At least, if that's how they're connecting I think that'd work... Enjoy, Ste

Re: [GENERAL] Automatically assuming a specific role after connecting to pg

2006-04-23 Thread Stephen Frost
* Florian G. Pflug ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I can do that with "alter user set role " too... > But I'd like my users to be able to connect as either role "dev" or > role "admin", depending on the task they want to do. Alright, can you describe *exactly* what you'd want to see then? Is this a

Re: [GENERAL] Automatically assuming a specific role after connecting to pg

2006-04-22 Thread Tom Lane
"Florian G. Pflug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to be able to connect to postgres, and automatically assume a > specific role. Why don't you just connect as that role to begin with? This seems like a pretty low-value frammish. regards, tom lane ---

[GENERAL] Automatically assuming a specific role after connecting to pg

2006-04-22 Thread Florian G. Pflug
I'd like to be able to connect to postgres, and automatically assume a specific role. I imagine something like create role myuser ; create role dev noinherit ; create role admin noinherit superuser ; grant dev to myuser ; grant admin to myuser ; Now, I'd like a connect as "myuser/admin" to be e