Re: correction suggestion for https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/auth-username-maps.html

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: alexey(dot)shishkin(at)enterprisedb(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: correction suggestion for https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/auth-username-maps.html
Date: 2025-07-13 19:49:30
Message-ID: 443431.1752436170@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> (Likewise, the system-username regexp can contain more than one capture -
> which are only available later in the system-username regexp - though again
> it seems unlikely anyone is going to use that feature in this context.)

Yeah, I was thinking about that while working on the multiple-\1
patch. Sooner or later somebody is going to ask why they can't
use \2, \3, etc in the database-username. I think it would be a
pretty minor finger exercise to make the new code do that, but
I refrained for now.

> I'm good with this.

Cool. I'll push after the beta2 release freeze lifts.

regards, tom lane

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