Re: fix for acls with usernames that have " characters in them. - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: fix for acls with usernames that have " characters in them.
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Msg-id 1417.1060870947@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to fix for acls with usernames that have " characters in them.  ("Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> This patch seems to address all the problems with usernames with double
> quotes in them.

Applied, thanks.

> The only thing I'm worried about is what happens when you
> run pg_dump now against old versions of postgres that don't use the new
> quoting rules...

AFAICS the patch would only change behavior if a username in an ACL list
contains adjacent double quotes, which seems pretty unlikely considering
the other problems a DBA would find with double quotes in user names in
older versions.  So I'm not too worried.

            regards, tom lane

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