Re: getting confused parsing ACLITEMS... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: getting confused parsing ACLITEMS...
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Msg-id 20030810112356.M98663-100000@houston.familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: getting confused parsing ACLITEMS...  (Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>)
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> >I don't see any backwards-compatibility issue, because usernames
> >containing double quotes just plain don't work in past releases;
> >we've never before bothered to have a complete quoting solution
> >in ACLs.
> >
> >
>
> Is it useful to allow these special chars at all? Seems this creates a
> lot of work, and most admins will probably stick to "normal" user names
> anyway.

It's the principle of the thing :)  Also, I don't know how non-english
speakers treat their double quote characers...

Chris




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