Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>A question for interested parties. I'm thinking in handling the
>user/password issue by reading the flat files (the copies of pg_shadow,
>pg_database, etc).
>
>The only thing that I'd need to modify is add the datdba field to
>pg_database, so we can figure out an appropiate user for vacuuming each
>database.
>
>What do people think?
>
>
I probably don't understand all the issue involved here but reading
pg_shadow by hand seems problematic. Do you constantly re-read it?
What happens when a new user is added etc....
Can't autovacuum run as a super-user that can vacuum anything?
