| From: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Open 7.3 items |
| Date: | 2002-08-14 16:12:23 |
| Message-ID: | 200208141212.23056.lamar.owen@wgcr.org |
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On Tuesday 13 August 2002 07:21 pm, Sander Steffann wrote:
> I think choosing . as the delimiter is a dangerous choice... People have
> not expected it to be special until now, so maybe another character can be
> chosen? I would suggest a colon if possible, so you would get dbname:user.
> I don't expect that a lot of people use a colon as the dbname or username,
> but I could be very wrong here.
The choices have been enumerated as . and @. I personally vote for either:
user(at)db
OR
db!user
(sorry, having been a UUCP node admin shows at times...) To my eyes the bang
notation is more of a 'divider' than the @. Unless there is some _really_
good reason to not use !, that is. :-)
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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