Re: Email data type - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dave Page
Subject Re: Email data type
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Msg-id 03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B889FDCF@mail.vale-housing.co.uk
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In response to Email data type  (Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>)
Responses Re: Email data type  (Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Atkins [mailto:steve@blighty.com]
> Sent: 17 May 2004 16:46
> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Email data type
>
> a@foo.bar is syntactically valid. a@foo.invalid is
> syntactically valid, but should be immediately rejected.

I disagree - just because the database server cannot verify the the
existence of a domain does not mean that it isn't valid. I think only
addresses that are syntactically incorrect should be rejected.

Regards, Dave.


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