Re: Open 7.3 items

Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com> writes:
> But it doesn't need to affect anyone, even if it's enabled. Isn't
> the lack of an @ just as good as an @ at the end of the username?

No, because there isn't any @ in the incoming connection request in the
normal-user case: just a user name and a database name, which *we* have
to assemble into user(at)database(dot)

We can't really expect the users to do this for us (give user(at)database
as their full user name). There are a number of reasons why I don't
wanna do that, but the real showstopper is that the username field of
the connection request packet is only 32 bytes wide, and we cannot
enlarge it without a protocol breakage. Fitting "user(at)database" in 32
bytes would be awfully restrictive about your user and database names.

regards, tom lane