Re: [BUGS] BUG #4919: CREATE USER command slows down system performance

toruvinn wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:02:09 +0200, Alvaro Herrera  
>  wrote:
>> My bet is on the pg_auth flat file.  I doubt we have ever tested the
>> behavior of that code with 1 billion users ...

> I was always wondering, though, why PostgreSQL uses this approach and not 
> its catalogs.

It does use the catalog for most things.  THe flatfile is used for the
situations where the catalogs are not yet ready to be read.

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