Re: Patch author name on commitfest page

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 16:36, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 23:45, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>>> Can we please change the comment lines below the patch heading to have the
>>>> real name instead of the postgresql.org ID?
>>>>
>>>> Patch by Pavel Stehule
>>>> Patch by Gurjeet Singh
>>>>
>>>> instead of
>>>>
>>>> Patch by okbobcz
>>>> Patch by singh.gurjeet
>>>>
>>>> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view?id=8
>>>
>>> I don't think that information is available to the app, at least at
>>> present... when you log in, it is empowered to ask the community login
>>> DB "is this combination of a username and a password valid?" but all
>>> it gets back is "yes" or "no".
>>
>> Sure it is. When you call community_login(), it'll return you the
>> yes/no field, the full name, the email address, an author text (not
>> used anymore, so don't rely on that), community docs superuser flag
>> (also not used, don't rely on, kind of a failed experiment) and last
>> successful login time prior to this one.
>>
>> It's quite possible all users haven't included their full name when
>> they registered, but for those that have the information is available.
>
> Hrm, so in theory I could maintain a (possible stale) cache of this
> information.  Seems sort of hairy, though.

Keep it in whatever session state where you keep the login data?

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