On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 09:00 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Simon Riggs (simon@2ndQuadrant.com) wrote:
> > I get the feeling that part of the inspiration for this is that Hot
> > Standby must maintain this file. If not, I'm curious as to the reasons
> > for doing this. No objections however, just curiosity.
>
> The impetus for these changes was the performance complaint that adding
> new users is extremely expensive once the files get to be large.
> Solving that kind of a problem typically involves moving away from flat
> files and to a database. Thankfully, we happen to have a database
> already built-in. ;)
LOL. Quite lucky that. :)
-- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
