David Fetter wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 11:55:18PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > Added to TODO:
> >
> > * Allow more complex user/database default GUC settings
> >
> > Currently, ALTER USER and ALTER DATABASE support per-user and
> > per-database defaults. Consider adding per-user-and-database
> > defaults so things like search_path can be defaulted for a
> > specific user connecting to a specific database.
>
> Is anybody claiming this TODO? Is the design fleshed out enough for
> someone to go forward with it?
I think we just need to decide on the user API for this.
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> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 05:41:35PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > >> Yeah. ISTM the correct generalization is "per-user per-database
> > > >> default GUC settings", which has nothing to do with superuserness.
> > >
> > > > This sounds like a TODO for 8.3. What wrinkles might this involve?
> > >
> > > Probably rethink the rolconfig/datconfig representation. Maybe it's
> > > time for a separate catalog for the settings.
> > >
> > > > Offhand, I'm thinking that it would touch the inheritance stuff that
> > > > roles have.
> > >
> > > No, it wouldn't, because defaults only apply at the instant of
> > > connection, so there's no inheritance or SET ROLE to worry about.
> > > Whatever role you log in as is what you get.
> > >
> > > regards, tom lane
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