On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 17:08 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>
>> Oh. Then I'm confused. Tom said: "as of 9.0, it's necessary to
>> connect to some database in order to proceed with auth checking". Why
>> is that necessary
>
> It's not, I just explained how to do it without.
Your explanation seems to presuppose that we somehow can't process the
database-specific rules before selecting a database. I don't
understand why that would be the case. Why can't we just check all
the rules and then, if we decide to allow the connection, select the
database?
...Robert