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From: Andres Freund on 5 Jan 2010 03:56
On Tuesday 05 January 2010 09:37:57 black light wrote:
> Hi,
> Why PG uses a flat file (global\pg_auth) for md5 authentication!? Is it
> forced to do it instead of accessing relevant table is system catalog?
It does not anymore:
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=7b0a92a0b6f5ef41f1547381cbd0e2604ec2bf87

The reason earlier was that the authentication check was done before a backend
was started...

Andres

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