From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Open 7.3 items |
Date: | 2002-08-16 16:46:44 |
Message-ID: | 8729.1029516404@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Specifically, what is ugly about it? Is it that global users have an @
> at the end of their names? How do we prevent namespace collisions
> _without_ doing this? I am all ears.
The folks who are unhappy about this design basically think that the
namespace collisions issue should not be considered a vital requirement;
whereupon you don't have to have the '@' because a search in the
pg_shadow flat file would work well enough.
It comes down to a judgment call about which is uglier, putting '@' on
global usernames or having to avoid namespace collisions.
At this point I think we've wasted more than enough time on the
argument; I haven't seen any new ideas recently, nor any change in
anyone's position. Since no one seems to want to do the work to make a
better implementation, I vote we accept the patch we have and move on.
regards, tom lane
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