| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Open 7.3 items |
| Date: | 2002-08-18 09:37:20 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0208171946370.3655-100000@localhost.localdomain |
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Tom Lane writes:
> BTW, I just thought of a small improvement to your patch that eliminates
> some of the ugliness. Suppose that when we recognize an attempt to
> connect as a global user (ie, feature flag is on and last character of
> username is '@'), we strip off the '@' before proceeding.
I'm missing how hard it is to change "last character of username is @" to
"no @ in username". This would seem to be a two-line change somewhere.
I'm concerned that we leave essentially no migration path, that is, the
ability to turn the feature on to try it out without immediately breaking
every application.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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