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> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > Can we get agreement to remove our secondary password files, and make
> > something that makes more sense?
>
> How about this: Normally secondary password files look like
>
> username:ABS5SGh1EL6bk
>
> We could add the option of making them look like
>
> username:+
>
> which means "look into pg_shadow". That would be fully backward
> compatible, allows the use of alter user with password, and avoids
> creating any extra system tables (that would need to be dumped to plain
> text). And the coding looks very simple.
Yes, perfect. In fact, how about:
> username
as doing that. Any username with no colon uses pg_shadow.
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