Re: What Would You Like To Do?

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 09/14/2011 05:12 AM, Hannu Krosing wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 10:26 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>
>>>> Complete isolation at the user level, allowing an ISP to support
>>>> multiple independent customers on a server without having to fiddle with
>>>> multiple back ends each running on a separate port, a feature that MySQL
>>>> has had for as far back as I can recall, and one of the reasons ISPs are
>>>> more likely to offer MySQL than PostgreSQL.
>>>
>>> Now this would definitely be nice. It is frustrating that we don't have
>>> per database users.
>>
>> Hmm, what does the GUC db_user_namespace  do then ?
>>
>> it says "Enables per-database user names."
>
> Last I checked (it has been a few years) that was at best, a hack. I
> remember either I or David Fetter? Writing about some issues with it on list
> but it was a long time ago.
>

last time i tried it (last year), it seems broken because i couldn't
log in with any user anymore... but it could be that i did something
wrong so i didn't report until i could confirm but i hadn't the time
and i forgot it since then

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