> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Frost [mailto:sfrost@snowman.net]
> Sent: 01 August 2005 15:51
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Bruce Momjian; Andreas Pflug; Tom Lane; Magnus Hagander;
> PostgreSQL-development
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Remote administration functionality
>
>
> This isn't actually an argument against my proposal. The
> admin doesn't
> edit pg_shadow using vi because it's understood to be 'owned' by the
> database. The same would be true of 'pg_hba' in my solution.
Only if it were moved to a different location and renamed. Otherwise
people would be bound to try to edit it as that is what they have done
for years.
Regards, Dave.