| From: | Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: getting confused parsing ACLITEMS... |
| Date: | 2003-08-09 18:43:33 |
| Message-ID: | 3F3540D5.2050101@pse-consulting.de |
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Tom Lane wrote:
>Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>
>
>>So if you agree that there is a quoting problem,and you don't mind
>>breaking backwards compatibility for it, I'll do a complete patch...
>>
>>
>
>I don't see any backwards-compatibility issue, because usernames
>containing double quotes just plain don't work in past releases;
>we've never before bothered to have a complete quoting solution
>in ACLs.
>
>
Is it useful to allow these special chars at all? Seems this creates a
lot of work, and most admins will probably stick to "normal" user names
anyway.
Regards,
Andreas
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