Re: secondary password files

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Why do we bother supporting passwords in pg_shadow and secondary files? 

So the same user can have different passwords for different databases.

It's a pretty crude hack, since there isn't any support for updating
the secondary password files except via manual editing done by the
dbadmin.  But I wouldn't be in favor of taking it out until we can
replace that functionality elsewhere.
        regards, tom lane