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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
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Comments: In-reply-to Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
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Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> Plan C (remove CATUPDATE altogether) also has some merit.  But adding a
>> superuser override there would be entirely pointless.

> This is be my recommendation.  I do not see the point of carrying the
> option around just to confuse new users of pg_authid and reviewers of
> the code.

Yeah ... if no one's found it interesting in the 20 years since the
code left Berkeley, it's unlikely that interest will emerge in the
future.

			regards, tom lane


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