Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > OK, I think we are doing this backwards. Instead of adding '@' to
> > global users, and then removing it in the backend, why don't we have
> > local users end with '@', that way, global users continue to connect
> > just as they have before, and local users connect with @, so dave@db1
> > connects as 'dave@' and if he has other database access, he can use the
> > same 'dave@' name.
>
> No, *that* would be backwards. In installations that are using this
> feature, the vast majority of the users are going to be local ones.
> And the global users will be the presumably-more-sophisticated admins.
> Putting the onus of the '@' decoration on the local users instead of
> the global ones is exactly the wrong way to go.
OK, but it looks slightly less ugly.
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