Re: Open 7.3 items

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > I don't see what the problem is of dumping out the entire content of
> > pg_shadow into a flat file. First you look for a non-@ user, then you
> > look for an @ user that matches the database.
>
> While I'd prefer that approach myself, the way Bruce is proposing does
> have a definite advantage: there is no problem with confusion between
> global users and database-local users of the same username. "foo@" is
> global, "foo" is not.
>
> My own feeling is that the confusion argument is a weak one, and that
> not having to use "@" to log in as a global user would be worth having
> to avoid duplicating global and local names. But I'm not sufficiently
> excited about it to volunteer to do the work ;-)

Here we go again. I thought you just said that the @ wouldn't be
something a user would have to do. I understood that to be any user.
It's back to ugly again.

Vince.
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