> Now, that doesn't preclude clients from seeing the names of another
> clients database using \l, but unless there is gross mis-management of the
> pg_hba.conf, seeing the names of other databases doesn't give other
> clients any benefits ...
That rather depends upon what those clients are doing, doesn't it?
I can see benefits from being able to completely isolate one client/database
from another, even to the point of not giving them any hints that they're
sharing the same database server. (Depending on how fanatical I am about
it, there are other solutions, such as separate instances or completely
separate physical systems, but those present a different set of
administrative issues.)
It may be more of a marketing issue than a technical one. If we want
increased commercial acceptance, that may be one of the higher priority
features from an ISP's (or his clients') point of view, if not from ours.
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Mike Nolan